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| From | Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.system |
| Subject | Re: Thumb-drive format |
| Date | 2014-07-29 01:18 +0000 |
| Organization | People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates |
| Message-ID | <c3ob3tF5tcbU2@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | (10 earlier) <230720142309319797%timstreater@greenbee.net> <c3as57FanbjU4@mid.individual.net> <slrnlt16s7.o8g.g.kreme@amelia.local> <c3ck63Fmaj0U3@mid.individual.net> <slrnltds1a.1fi9.g.kreme@amelia.local> |
On 2014-07-29, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote: > Okay, so one time? In band camp? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> was all, like: >>> >>> Um.. what? You can't write to an NTFS volume under OS X without >>> installing something like MacFuse and a NTFS plugin. > >> So install it. Simple. > >>> It's not difficult, > >> Exactly. > >>> but it is also astonishingly slow. Unless it's gotten a LOT better, it >>> capped out for me at about 4MB/s (or about the same as my download >>> speed), far short of the ~60MB/s I get copying to other formats. > >> We're talking about thumb drives, where speed isn't critical. > > Filling a 32GB thumb drive would take over 2 hours. I'm sorry, but if those are the speeds you saw personally, something was wrong. And some data seems to suggest you are wrong: <http://www.zeninteractions.com/2010/03/31/tuxera-ntfs-vs-paragon-ntfs-mac-benchmarks/> No offense, but I'll take real data and empirical evidence over the blathering of some random internet mouth piece in just about every subject imaginable. : ) >> And you're >> ignoring the fact that such software, while it may or may not be >> considered slow, does work reliably, which is counter to what >> mr.know-it-all suggests. > > Yeah, I didn't have any trouble with it working, just with it working > very very slowly. Your experience doesn't seem to be representative of others, including me. Sorry about that. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR
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Re: Thumb-drive format Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-07-23 23:09 +0100
Re: Thumb-drive format Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-07-23 22:43 +0000
Re: Thumb-drive format nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-07-23 23:04 -0400
Re: Thumb-drive format Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-07-24 14:37 +0000
Re: Thumb-drive format Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-07-24 05:37 +0000
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Re: Thumb-drive format Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-07-24 14:40 +0000
Re: Thumb-drive format Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-07-29 00:48 +0000
Re: Thumb-drive format Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-07-29 01:06 +0000
Re: Thumb-drive format nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-07-28 22:35 -0400
Re: Thumb-drive format Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-07-24 14:40 +0000
Re: Thumb-drive format Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-07-29 00:51 +0000
Re: Thumb-drive format Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-07-29 01:18 +0000
Re: Thumb-drive format Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-07-29 05:02 +0000
Re: Thumb-drive format gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2014-07-23 17:00 -0700
Re: Thumb-drive format Darrin "Doc" O'Leary <droleary@3q2014.subsume.com> - 2014-07-22 21:19 +0000
Re: Thumb-drive format Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-07-22 21:49 +0000
Re: Thumb-drive format Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-07-22 21:49 +0000
Re: Thumb-drive format Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-07-23 07:56 -0400
Re: Thumb-drive format dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-07-24 01:26 +1200
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Re: Thumb-drive format nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-07-23 09:33 -0400
Re: Thumb-drive format Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-07-23 10:12 -0400
Re: Thumb-drive format Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-07-23 15:57 +0100
Re: Thumb-drive format Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-07-23 12:41 +0000
Re: Thumb-drive format Paul Magnussen <magiconinc@earthlink.net> - 2014-07-23 08:30 -0700
Re: Thumb-drive format dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-07-24 10:29 +1200
Re: Thumb-drive format Barry OGrady <atheist@hotmail.com.au> - 2014-07-26 21:28 +1000
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