Free NTFS Driver For MAC For Seagate and WD

Have you tried completely uninstalling both proprietary apps and their drivers, rebooting, then installing just one of those proprietary apps? It is possible installing both apps may be installing both Paragon drivers which may be stepping on each others toes. Maybe their proprietary apps are preventing the driver from working with their competitors' drives (I hope that is not the case, but I really don't trust companies these days).

Did you try erasing the drives yourself since maybe from the factory they each use a slightly different allocation size or some other NTFS feature which may not be compatible between the two different apps/drivers. If you erase the drives yourself, then both should be using a compatible NTFS format. Maybe the Paragon driver used by one (or perhaps both) have been customized in some way to make them unique.

Or just purchase all Seagate or all WD drives.

Personally I would look into other options for whatever you are doing with the LG TV so that you don't need any NTFS drivers on your Mac. These "smart" TVs are not what they are cracked up to be, nor are they safe (for your privacy, or your networked devices and tend to have a limited time limit for features & updates). You are better off treating a "smart" device as a classic "dumb" device as it will usually allow any custom setups to work with any model/'brand device.

Microsoft considers Windows New Technology File System (NTFS) to be it proprietary format, and have threatened to sue anyone who writes it without a license from them. Apple considers this nonsense, and therefore will read, But NOT write NTFS drives.

But nor will it back up such Drives with Time Machine, because they do not support the File System Event Store required to quickly determine what folders have changed.

If you use NTFS drives for Time Machine backup DESTINATION drives, a Mac SparseBundle disk image will be created inside an NTFS file to store your data. Remember this data will NOT be available until the NTFS Drive is loaded, so it makes restoring from such a drive MUCH more complex than necessary..

Paragon and Tuxiera sell modest-priced (Not Free) Drivers.

The real solution to ERASE those pre-formatted drives when new and empty, and never install NTFS drivers at all.