I've had it for a few years and it has worked although I usually migrate the stuff off the ntfs drives on to an HFS+ drive for editing. It hasn't caused me any grief and I use macdrive on the PC side although I was the Paragon version of mac drive as a freebee after purchasing the ntfx for mac. I never tried it because I had macdrive.
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Kreines <jeffkreines@...> wrote:
>
> Strangely, the product page for NTFS for Mac only shows up in Japanese, thou the rest of the site is in English. But it still looks useful. Anyone use the HFS for PC software from Paragon?
>
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>
> On Jan 5, 2012, at 10:42 AM, namyrb <namyrb@...> wrote:
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> > I'll have to second paragon. Ive just seen too many drives get killed using
> > macdrive.
> >
> > On Thursday, January 5, 2012, Red Truck <redtruckproductions@...>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I have used Paragon "NTFS for Mac" http://bit.ly/zOFim5 on my Macbook with
> >> success to read/write media files on exchange projects from a PC NTFS
> >> format drive.
> >>
> >> Robert Alsop@
> >> Red Truck
> >> Video to go!
> >> Toronto
> >> 905-717-3718
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Jeff Kreines" <jeffkreines@...>
> >> To: <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
> >> Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 8:00 PM
> >> Subject: [Avid-L2] Thunderbolt to eSATA adapter?
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Forgive me for cross posting.
> >>>
> >>> I have a project coming up where I need to move drives back and forth
> >>> between a W7 PC and a MacBook Pro.
> >>>
> >>> Some will be used to capture material on the PC, where I do not need a
> >>> particularly high data rate (no problem using a 7200 RPM single SATA
> > drive
> >>> for this).
> >>>
> >>> I need to take these drives to a MacBook Pro (portability is an issue)
> > for
> >>> generating H264 web versions (QT Player 7 does this nicely) and also for
> >>> copying files to additional drives and possibly FCP and AE (simple
> > stuff).
> >>>
> >>> Thunderbolt seems necessary on the Mac end (vs FW800), and eSATA on the
> > PC
> >>> end. I looked at the Promise RAIDs, but the price just jumped, and they
> >>> are Thunderbolt-only. So scratch them from consideration.
> >>>
> >>> Just found this which looks very useful:
> >>>
> >>>
> > https://secure1.sonnettech.com/product_info.php?cPath=127_132&products_id=392&osCsid=71d4505f4b968e98251bb456e43eace8
> >>>
> >>> For an extra $49.95 Sonnet has an Expresscard 34 device that works with
> >>> this and gives me 2 eSATA ports. Seems ideal, if it works.
> >>>
> >>> I would use this with either the 6TB G-Raids or maybe the cheaper 6TB
> >>> MyBooks, both with eSATA ports. Might format all drives as HFS+ and use
> >>> MacDrive on the PC. (Good or bad idea?)
> >>>
> >>> Also this lets me use cheap SATA raw drives in a $30 dock for backups. Is
> >>> this too good to be true?
> >>>
> >>> So, anyone used this adapter? Anyone like or dislike the G-Raids?
> >>>
> >>> All advice appreciated... Especially Bob Zelin's.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>> Jeff Kreines
> >>>
> >>>
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