Neat preference pane: NTFS-3G for Mac provides a clean and accessible preference pane for your NTFS-3G driver. Quick: We transferred a 700MB file in 45 seconds on a Mac, and the same file in 42 seconds using the Mac's Bootcamp installation of Windows. Overall, it performs well, with speeds approaching those you would get in Windows. The software comes free of charge and features several advanced options such as caching and filename normalization. NTFS-3G for Mac adds drivers to your OS X installation that allow you to read and write to NTFS-formatted thumb and external hard drives as if you're using a Windows machine.