

Most free NTFS drivers are for macOS Mojave edition, macOS High Sierra, and earlier, and few are compatible with macOS Big Sur especially on M1 Macs. If you don't care about the risks and want to try out the free NTFS for Mac programs, generally speaking, Mounty for NTFS and FUSE for macOS are better free ones. Some disadvantages can even put your data at risk. Tuxera NTFS for Mac is compatible with popular virtualization and encryption solutions including Parallels Desktop® and VMware Fusion®.All NTFS for Mac free software has obvious flaws or shortcomings (like low write speed, poor compatibility, and no technical support). Tuxera-only advanced features include support for NTFS extended attributes.

The software fully supports all macOS versions starting from 10.4 (Tiger) including OS X El Capitan. Tuxera NTFS for Mac delivers the fastest NTFS file transfer speeds on a Mac while protecting your data with it’s new, smart caching layer.

Tuxera NTFS for Mac solves this problem providing full read-write compatibility across platforms. By default OS X can only read files from Windows-formatted hard drives leaving the users unable to edit, copy or delete anything. It also offers some additional features to its open source counterpart, NTFS-3G, along with commercial support.Īpple’s macOS offers very limited support for Microsoft Windows NTFS formatted hard drives and other storage media out of the box. It has been engineered to bring our customers maximum possible performance when accessing NTFS drives while keeping their data safe. Tuxera NTFS is a commercial NTFS driver developed from the popular open-source NTFS-3G driver, which is a natural part of all major Linux distributions, and also has lots of users on macOS, FreeBSD, Solaris, and NetBSD.
