Tiger NTFS read help

[Oil]

Transferring about 4.4gb from my external 7200rpm hard drive to my Macbook with 10.4 took 50 minutes. I installed the NTFS-3G read/write driver for OS X but it still takes forever

Is there a better driver to use or am I out of luck?

 

[Kmax82]

Something is up with that. I had a NTFS drive when I was still using XP on another computer and it never took that long to copy files over. Maybe 10-15 minutes, but definitely not 50! Wow.. sorry I don't have any useful information to give you.. 🙁

 

[randomlinh]

Well, for one thing, you don't need the NTFS-3G driver to read NTFS formated drives. Try uninstalling and see what happens.

The only slowdown I have is most of my USB drives suck. far slower than my FW drive, heh.

 

[Oil]

I need the NTFS-3G to write though so I don't want to uninstall it. The drive itself is fast when I transfer files in Windows

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

There is another solution, I forgot what it's called but you can buy a product that supposedly fast. How are read speeds? There might be something else wrong.

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: OSx86
I need the NTFS-3G to write though so I don't want to uninstall it. The drive itself is fast when I transfer files in Windows

Well, I was suggesting that more as a troubleshooting guide, to see if it's the NTFS-3G driver causing issues or if it's something else.

 

[Oil]

Originally posted by: SoundTheSurrender
There is another solution, I forgot what it's called but you can buy a product that supposedly fast. How are read speeds? There might be something else wrong.

I don't know exactly what you are saying. The read speeds are slow as posted above

 

[Oil]

Originally posted by: randomlinh

Originally posted by: OSx86
I need the NTFS-3G to write though so I don't want to uninstall it. The drive itself is fast when I transfer files in Windows

Well, I was suggesting that more as a troubleshooting guide, to see if it's the NTFS-3G driver causing issues or if it's something else.

Well it was the NTFS-3G driver that was causing the slow read times. What do I do now for NTFS write capabilities?

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

Sorry I read it wrong.

Here is the commercial solution that I hear is pretty fast.

http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/

 

[pinktank]

paragon software is really good I used several versions of both

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: pinktank
paragon software is really good I used several versions of both

are you using it on leopard? any quirky issues you may have encountered? I'm hesitant to shell out money for it, as I'm very concerned about data integrity (I need one of my backups to be on an NTFS volume). I can do stuff through parallels, but having to load up windows kind of sucks just to copy data.