In order to make this work, you must disable System Integrity Protection (SIP) on your Mac. This will automatically mount the NTFS drives connected to your Mac each time you boot it up. To automatically mount drives in read-write mode, you’ll need to replace Apple’s default NTFS program with NTFS-3G. If you don’t know what number your disk is, find it with diskutil list. Additionally, be sure to change the disk number before mounting anything. Of course, this assumes that you’ve put the NTFS-3G program in its default install path. sudo /usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g /dev/disk1s1 /Volumes/NTFS -olocal -oallow_other Now that this directory exists, you can use NTFS-3G to mount.

First, create a directory to which you can mount the NTFS drive: sudo mkdir /Volumes/NTFS To mount your NTFS drive, you’ll need to use Terminal.

So NTFS-3G is forced to write “live,” which degrades performance significantly. This happens because macOS does not have a buffer for writing to NTFS drives, nor the virtual memory to hold that buffer. Compared to the 500+ MB/s achieved by an SSD, the difference is dramatic. Transfer performance is slow, often limited to about 10 MB/s. You can download the package directly from the Tuxera website, from GitHub, or with Homebrew. With this Terminal command you can mount drives in macOS in a writable state. NTFS-3G is an open-source command-line program for writing to NTFS drives in macOS.

Write support for NTFS drives can be added through open-source programs, paid programs, or Apple’s own experimental drivers. Your Mac can read NTFS drives, transferring content from the drives to another place, but it cannot write to NTFS drives.

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