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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Thumb-drive format
Date: 29 Jul 2014 01:18:54 GMT
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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.

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