This will, in reality, be the shortest review I have ever written (as well as I can remember. I may have slammed something in a sentence or two some years ago, but blocked it out due to trauma). If you look to your left you will see a screenshot of a Get Info box on my Desktop. This is a picture of the info from my Boot Camp partition, Cacophony, which is what I named my Vista Ultimate partition. As you can see, I allocated 80GB to it, I have about 32GB free, and I have modified the default icon.
What, you say? You can’t modify the default icon because any partition larger than 32GBs needs to be NTFS, and Mac OS X doesn’t natively support NTFS, just FAT32. You will recently recall that I announced the release of NTFS for Mac OS X from Paragon. Well, this is it. In fact, this is all you will ever see of NTFS For Mac OS X. If you look to the very bottom of th Get Info dialog, you’ll see that, under Sharing & Permissions, it say “You can read and write”.
Yup, that’s all it does. It enables your NTFS partitions or drives of any size to be readable and writeable in Mac OS X. I’ll just tell you that its not possible to beat this with a stick or any other blunt object, for that matter. There are no options. You don’t need any. It just works, and for a mere US$29.95 for now (regular price will be US$39.95). See? Shortest review ever.
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written by Tyler Regas
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May 6th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Hi,
What about something free like MacFuse at http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/
May 7th, 2008 at 6:28 am
Sounds great, but having some experience with FUSE on Linux, it doesn’t look ready just yet for the average user. I consider myself a pretty advanced Mac user and I was unable to locate any UI for the installation. Of course, I only checked Applications, Utilities, and in System Preferences, but it seems to me that if you’re going to offer a filesystem tool you might want to have a UI in one of the standard places so that less experienced people can find it. Remember, very few Mac users ever read any manuals
May 7th, 2008 at 6:53 am
i hate macFuse — if you’re like most people u want to connect to an external drive and access it with r+w capabilities. Bummer then that streaming media from a macFuse’d drive is just too slow to do it, i really think that’s why most people use externals. Music is OK, but video is oh so not, even over USB2
May 7th, 2008 at 8:36 am
I still haven’t been able to figure out how to simply use MacFUSE, but I’m with you on certain applications of media via USB2. We reviewed Western Digital’s 320GB 2.5″ drive and in that review I spoke about MacAlly’s B-S250U USB 2.0 enclosure into which I placed my MBP’s original drive. While its good for storage, its not much good for being a video source. I get lots of hiccups and skips in all kinds of media. If MacFUSE makes this even slower, I’m hesitant to use it.