



As well, this tool for Mac delivers the fastest NTFS data transfer speeds you can have on Mac while protecting your data with its fresh, smart caching layer. Furthermore, with software for Mac, you can access your Windows disks as easily as any Mac disk. It also builds and extends upon the proven stability of Tuxera’s famous open-source NTFS-3G to deliver a full-featured, commercial grade NTFS driver for your Mac. Tuxera NTFS for Mac is our commercial read/write NTFS software for Mac users.

In practice, however, it has been shown that Tuxera NTFS’s performance for Mac can easily compare with kernel-based drivers. The only theoretical downside is that CPU usage will be slightly higher due to increased kernel/userspace communication, resulting in slower read/write speeds. This approach makes Tuxera NTFS for Mac a lot more portable and safer since system stability won’t be affected in a file system driver crash. Instead, it lives in“userspace,” where all other programs run and are linked to the kernel through the file system bridge MacFUSE (a Mac version of FUSE, “Filesystem in Userspace,” created for the Linux kernel). This is not the case with Tuxera NTFS for Mac. Usually, file systems drivers live in the operating system’s kernel, which makes writing them a risky business as they can easily crash the whole system if the developer makes mistakes.
