Why Windows Nt File System Tuxera Ntfs Vs Exfat

Develops and sells file systems software. Its most popular products are Tuxera NTFS and Tuxera exFAT, both available on a number of platforms including Linux, Android, QNX and macOS.Tuxera's customers include a number of consumer electronics manufacturers in mobile phones, tablets, TVs, set-top boxes, automotive infotainment and storage markets.

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WHY YOU NEED MICROSOFT NTFS FOR MAC BY TUXERA

When it comes to Windows NTFS-formatted USB drives, Macs are only built for reading. That means you can open files stored on those drives, but you can’t edit, copy, move, or delete those files using your Mac. To write files, you need an add-on NTFS-driver.

Microsoft NTFS for Mac by Tuxera is easy-to-use software that makes this all possible.

Use external USB drives previously formatted in Windows

Swap drives regularly between Windows PCs and Macs

Seamless data exchange when dual booting Windows and macOS/OS X

Easy file handling when running Windows through a virtual machine

Easily swap and change drives

Use the same external USB drives no matter what you use—Windows PCs or Macs. Microsoft NTFS for Mac by Tuxera adds full read and write capability for Windows NTFS-formatted drives.

Preserve what’s important

Unexpected power cuts or unplugging a USB drive at the wrong time can cause data loss – or worse – damage the drive. Our market-leading fail-safe technology keeps your videos, pictures, and other files intact, plus prevents drive corruption.

Wait less for file transfers

Microsoft NTFS for Mac by Tuxera provides fast, sustained file transfer speeds with our smart caching technology. That means less time waiting for files to save or copy between your USB drive and Mac.

Affordable one-time purchase

We offer a convenient, one-time purchase of €15 (US $15) per license, valid for the entire lifetime of the software. One license is valid for up to 3 personal, home computers. And all upgrades for standard retail purchases are free of charge. Read more about our licensing here.

Advanced features for technophiles

Our software is the only NTFS driver on the market to include support for NTFS extended attributes.

You also get Tuxera Disk Manager, a companion app that makes it easy to format, check, and repair NTFS drives.

See what they’re saying about Microsoft NTFS for Mac by Tuxera

“…Once installed you can forget about it. It’ll do all the work in the background and not bug you about this and that, it just works.”—Damien Zander, AppDucate
“I truly appreciate the customer-first service and, obviously, great products Tuxera provides.”—Brian from CO, USA
“…It just works. Every time. I’m a developer by trade, and I can usually find fault in anything I use. I have nothing negative to say about NTFS for Mac.”—Patrick from OH, USA
“It made the scariest part of going from PC to Mac go away.”—Shaun from CA, USA
“…It works beautifully and completely transparently.”—David Weiss, Director/Editor/Colorist
“…The perfect solution for any Mac user who needs simple and fast read and write access to files stored on NTFS formatted partitions on a Mac.”—Sergiu Gatlan, Softpedia

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Tuxera Inc.
Private
Industry	Software and embedded systems
Founded	Finland (2008)
Headquarters	,
Key people	Tuukka Ahoniemi, CEO Szabolcs Szakacsits, President and CTO
Website	www.tuxera.com

Tuxera Inc. develops and sells file systems software. Its most popular products are Tuxera NTFS and Tuxera exFAT, both available on a number of platforms including Linux, Android, QNX and macOS. Tuxera's customers include a number of consumer electronics manufacturers in mobile phones, tablets, TVs, set-top boxes, automotive infotainment and storage markets.^[1] Tuxera NTFS for Mac provides read-write connectivity to Windows formatted hard drives for macOS.^[2]

The company was founded in 2008 and is currently headquartered in Espoo, Finland. Tuxera's other offices are located in US, South Korea,^[3], Japan, Germany, Taiwan and China.

History[edit]

The origin of the company dates back to the open-source NTFS development in the late 1990s. NTFS had been introduced in 1993 by Microsoft as the file system for Windows NT. At that time Anton Altaparmakov emerged as the lead developer and maintainer of the Linux NTFS kernel driver. Meanwhile, Szabolcs Szakacsits continued to lead a platform-independent project under the name NTFS-3G. In 2006, NTFS-3G became the first driver to gain full read and write support. Commercial activity started in 2007 and the company was founded next year. In 2009 the company signed agreements with Microsoft,^[4] which was followed by global expansion and establishing the collaboration with chipset vendors and software platform companies.^[5]

In February 2011 Tuxera joined the Linux Foundation,^[6] which was an expected step as for many years Tuxera has contributed to the Linux kernel.

In July 2019 Tuxera acquired Datalight, ^[7] to strengthen its internal storage offering and expertise in flash memory and flash management software.

Embedded products[edit]

Microsoft NTFS by Tuxera (formerly Tuxera NTFS)[edit]

Tuxera NTFS is a performance optimized, fail-safe, fully compatible NTFS file system driver. It ships for example in smart TVs, set-top boxes, smartphones, tablets, routers, NAS and other devices. It is available for Android and other Linux platforms, QNX, WinCESeries 40, Nucleus RTOS and VxWorks. Supported architectures are ARM architecture, MIPS architecture, PowerPC, SuperH and x86.

Microsoft exFAT by Tuxera (formerly Tuxera exFAT)[edit]

Tuxera exFAT technology is used for SDXC memory card support. Tuxera was the first independent vendor to receive legal access to exFAT and TexFAT specifications, source code and verification tools from Microsoft.^[8] Tuxera exFAT can be found in automotive infotainment systems, Android phones and tablets from ASUS, Fujitsu, Panasonic, Pantech and others.^[9]

Microsoft FAT by Tuxera (formerly Tuxera FAT)[edit]

Tuxera FAT software provides interoperability and support for storage types such as SD memory card, CF card, Memory Stick, SSD, HDD via USB, SATA, eSATA, MMC and others.^[10] It is used by chipset and hardware manufacturers, and software and system integrators for full compliance with Microsoft patent licenses and GPL.

NTFS-3G[edit]

NTFS-3G is the original free-software 'community edition' driver used widely in Linux distributions, including Fedora, Ubuntu, and others. In April 12, 2011 it was announced that Ntfsprogs project was merged with NTFS-3G.^[11]

VelocityFS by Tuxera (formerly Tuxera Flash File System)[edit]

Tuxera also develops and commercializes its own proprietary Flash file system. Due to its fail-safe technology it can be found for instance in vehicles and cars, integrated with the event data recorder to make sure the data recorded from sensors is consistent even in case of a crash.^[12]

Tuxera FAT+[edit]

In 2017, Tuxera introduced FAT+^[13], a file system implementation for Universal Flash Storage cards and removable storage that is compatible with FAT32 but without the file size limitation of 4 GiB. It is royalty free for UFS card host devices^[14] and a standard recommended by the Universal Flash Storage Association^[15].

Consumer products[edit]

AllConnect[edit]

AllConnect is a mobile app that allows to stream music, photos and videos from Android devices to DLNA receivers (smart TVs, set-top-boxes, wireless speakers, etc.). It was launched in November 12, 2013 under the name of Streambels.^[16]

Tuxera NTFS for Mac[edit]

Tuxera NTFS for Mac allows macOS computers to read and write NTFS partitions. By default, macOS provides only read access to NTFS partitions. The latest stable version of the driver is 2016, released in September 2016.^[17] With the introduction of System Integrity Protection (SIP) by Apple in OS X El Capitan, usage of third-party software in Disk Utility is no longer possible. As a workaround, Tuxera NTFS for Mac ships together with Tuxera Disk Manager^[18] to facilitate the format and maintenance of NTFS volumes in macOS. Currently the software supports 13 languages: Arabic, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish.^[19] The software supports 64-bit kernels, including OS X El Capitan.^[20] It supports NTFS extended attributes and works with virtualization and encryption solutions including Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion.