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Since I had my Macbook about a month ago, I was always wanted to make myself easier by not buying a portable hard disk for mac only.

On the shelves of some several stores the prices of those Windows portable hard disks and Mac ones have a difference. Face it, portable hard disk for Mac only tends to more expensive as compared to Windows.

I was running low of space from my 80GB Samsung portable hard disk which I bought 5 years ago and I was thinking of getting a new one. On that Samsung hard disk, its on the NTFS file system, an unreadable file system for Mac and I did test it out … lol.

Anyway I went down to nearby store, grab me a low cost 500GB portable hard disk by Imation …. and for you who don’t know Imation uses Seagate hard disks.

I check out the file system and it was FAT32. Sounds familiar. Windows was using FAT 32 before Windows XP (if I might recall), but it doesn’t change my objective … can a Mac read NTFS ?

Well here comes the surprise …..

I was googling out on the world wide web for this solution and would you believe it …. there is a solution.

Paragon Software Group came out a solution for Mac users who want to use their Macs to read NTFS file system. The software will load all the drivers that is needed for a Mac to read the NTFS hard disk.

I gave it a try since there is a 10 day trial attached to it and guess what it works. The price for the software is at $39.95 and I recommend you as this is a good investment. You might not know when you need to read an NTFS hard disk as most external hard disks are catered for the Windows world meaning NTFS file system build on it.

Here’s the link for those who want to try or buy the software … a 5 thumbs up …

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