Tuxera ntfs for mac mojave drivers#
Tuxera ntfs for mac mojave driver#
Tuxera ntfs for mac mojave windows 10#
Tuxera ntfs for mac mojave pro#
Tuxera ntfs for mac mojave trial#

While old they are no doubt the best put together piece of hardware I’ve ever seen.

Tuxera ntfs for mac mojave pro#

I’ve obtained several of the old mac pro towers with the handles. My son Alan works for them and we’ve had apple pads and phones for a number of years now.

I’m currently walking into the waters of Apple computers. Plus, I already have a Tuxera license to cover other machines where I’m less performance-conscious. It seems likely I’ll buy the package deal for $50 with future upgrades, even though I don’t really need the other drivers.

Tuxera ntfs for mac mojave trial#

For now, I’m going to run the trial and decide how I feel at the end of that.

Tuxera ntfs for mac mojave driver#

Now that I’m much more performance-conscious in my driver choice, I’m much more inclined to switch to Paragon. Oddly, Tuxera seems to be impacted even on read by having caching disabled, which I wouldn’t have expected to be noticeable in these tests. This doesn’t seem to have a huge impact on performance, where it certainly does here. On Windows, I have write caching turned off by default for external devices since it improves FS resilience in sudden-disconnect scenarios, which can be tough to avoid especially with portables.

Paragon offers no such option, so it’s unclear to me if the driver is doing caching or not. Tuxera offers the option to turn it off, at a performance penalty (that the benchmarks clearly show). One thing I’m unclear on is how Paragon handles file system caching vs Tuxera. Paragon is a clear and commanding winner here. Tuxera also improved over the old benchmark, as you can see, but not by nearly enough to even maintain that performance delta. These numbers are about what I get running a benchmark on a Windows machine with USB 3.0. Caveat emptor: this is moving from a 2.5GBit/s ExpressCard bottleneck on my old machine to the SSD’s internal flash bottleneck on the new one, but still – Paragon couldn’t quite saturate the ExpressCard on my old test, and now can just about saturate the SSD. But the SSD performance delta has expanded from about 40% better for Paragon to more like 75% better for Paragon. For spinning disks, the performance comparison is mostly unchanged – they’re both about the same, and performance varies ☑0MB/s on the benchmark anyway depending on the direction of the wind. Long story short: Paragon pretty much smokes Tuxera. Minor point to Paragon for making an obvious effort to keep pace with Mojave. The UI differences are sort of neither here nor there, although for my money, change is good. If you don’t find that useful, you can turn it off. It now comes with a pretty menu item which shows your drives and offers quick access repair/mounting/etc. It has some pretty looking tools and interfaces, although I don’t think they change much in a practical sense. Paragon has developed significantly since last year. That makes Paragon a pretty darn good deal.) What’s different?įeatures and interface. ( UPDATE: Originally, I thought the package suite was on SALE for $50, but I think that’s actually the normal price and $100 is what you’d pay if you bought each alone. These factors make things a little less straightforward, but still I feel sum up in Tuxera’s favor.

Tuxera ntfs for mac mojave drivers#

Winner: Tuxera. Except, there are some extenuating circumstances at the moment: Tuxera’s currently on sale for $18, and Paragon has released a package suite of drivers which includes free upgrades, and is $50. Tuxera still charges $31 for thiers, on a per-user basis with free upgrades to new versions.

Paragon still charges $20 for their NTFS driver, licensed per-machine with no upgrades.

Tuxera ntfs for mac mojave windows 10#

Part of my plan for this machine going forward is to start running space-intense tasks like VMs and my photo library from an external NVMe SSD that can actually utilize that silly bandwidth, and may itself be shared with Windows 10 machines, so here we are. That almost includes some hypothetical external RAMdisk. Some things have changed – we’re on High Sierra looking to Mojave now, both drivers have new versions out, and this new machine now has not only USB 3.1 Gen2, but more generally, 160GBit/s I/O that could fully saturate virtually any storage device you could plug into it. I just bought a shiny new too-expensive-and-questionably-fit-for-sale MacBook Pro 2018, and the question is newly prescient. Last year, out of necessity to figure out which tool to use, I posted a comparison of Tuxera and Paragon NTFS drivers on macOS Sierra.