True/Real NTFS write support for OS X?

Okay so there's MacFUSE by Google which I couldn't figure out how to make it work, supposedly it works just great, but the whole compile this source and all that really set me off-track for some reason.

And there's the NTFS-3G or something like that which is not very fast from what I've read, and then there's the $39.95 packages you can buy online to get NTFS write support for OS X.

So? What works for you people?

I'm planning on buying a Time Capsule in the next couple of days, and I'd love to format it NTFS so I can get files from Windows people and also have my games installed and run them from there. It's 1Tb for god's sakes! And of course keep my Audio-related OS X files in there as well...

So if anyone has figured something out, please help me out!

Cheers!

 

Sorry, i think Time Capsule works best on +hfs with journaling turned on.

 

Well, obviously, it would..

But anyone else? Who actually tried formatting some externals in NTFS and got them to work with OS X?

 

Why on earth would you want to format ntfs? I purchased a 500 gig usb drive and wanted to use it with time machine. It came with some software hooey that was taking up a few hundred meg. Time machine wanted to format it and i hesitated at first and then remembered that I don't need to share it with any windows boxes.

A better solution than the $500 1 TB time capsule might be the $300 500 gig time capsule and a $140 usb 500 gig usb drive. Leave the drive formatted as is (I think they come with fat32) and use it for the file server but leave the internal timecapsule drive alone. Time machine doesn't seem to want to play nice with anything but hfs. To me this is no big loss. YMMV.

 

Well the thing is:

1) I don't use Time Machine, I actually downgraded to Tiger because I felt Leopard was cool but not quite polished..
2) I want to be able to store all my games and stuff - write them from Windows - or write on the HDD from other people using Windows, because I still like to play some games, I'm a game soundtrack composer
3) I wanna get rid of all the cables attached to my MBP. I'm getting a bluetooth mouse and I want to use the Time Capsule wirelessly
4) That's about it..

But what I found out is because the Time Capsule doesn't mount like a normal USB or Firewire drive, but as a Network Shared drive, both Windows and OS X can read/write on it with no problems.

I'm still looking for a way to write to NTFS on OS X though, so hit me with your ideas if you have any, thanks!

 

is your machine arrived with leopard? you shouldnt do that (downgrading the machine with older software) coz your new mac actually is optimized to work with leopard. there might have a software/hardware incompatibility issue/s

 

No, my Macbook Pro came in with Tiger. So there's no issues there. I just upgraded to Leopard, didn't like it, gone back. And now with 4gb of ram, it's even better!

But yeah, how about that NTFS

 

i wouldn't... unless you really really need to. as this things is not natively supported by apple. i also heard some people has problems using it... as the ultimate consequences in application like this is loss of data, i wouldn't risk it.

i thought mac runs software only on HFS+ volumes only... i'm not sure if they do wireless though... but imo thats only asking for trouble.

anyway; my best advice is to you is; if you insist, have your hdd partitioned into 2 volumes. one is HFS+ then the other one is FAT32. if you want to get files from "windows people" mac os x can read from windows, it just cant write to it.

i personally boght a mobile external harddrive (seagate freeagent go) formatted from ntfs so that i can transfer large data from my other computer (windows) i also have a couple of small pocket drive formatted in FAT