How safe is NTFS for MAC

I have an iMac(late 2013 3.1 GHz QuD-CORE INTEL CORE 17) running High Sierra 10.15.3 ..

Is NTFS for MAC safe or even necessary ?

what about other paragon products ?

I just deleted all the WD & Seagate products off my MAC ..


iMac 21.5", macOS 10.15

Posted on Feb 12, 2020 5:09 PM

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Posted on Feb 12, 2020 7:56 PM

plonxx wrote:

Is NTFS for MAC safe or even necessary ?
what about other paragon products ?


Only if you really need to write to windows NTFS drives.


If you have an NTFS formatted drive that is no longer needed for windows? It would be best to copy the data to your Mac or to another drive and reformat the drive to a more Mac friendly format. If you need to share data between a pc and your Mac, then exFAT would be better than using NTFS and third party software on your Mac.

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Feb 12, 2020 7:56 PM in response to plonxx

plonxx wrote:

Is NTFS for MAC safe or even necessary ?
what about other paragon products ?


Only if you really need to write to windows NTFS drives.


If you have an NTFS formatted drive that is no longer needed for windows? It would be best to copy the data to your Mac or to another drive and reformat the drive to a more Mac friendly format. If you need to share data between a pc and your Mac, then exFAT would be better than using NTFS and third party software on your Mac.

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