![]() I did experience this myself using Parallels Desktop in combination with an exfat formatted external SSD-drive. ![]() Exfat performs terrible slow for virtual machines. There are real performance reasons for this. Some free, but still limited, some not so free but performing.Ī NTFS formatted usb-drive is indeed a practical solution for sharing files between Mac OS X and Windows.Ī more advanced use-case: if you have virtual machines on a USB3 SSD drive and need access to it from Windows and Mac (maybe to have a second use for that disk, namely storing documents, or maybe share a VMware virtual machine between Windows and Mac) then NTFS is the way to go. It is read-only out-of-the-box and performance is lacking. The build-in support of Apple is very limited. ![]() There are a couple of options if you need good read/write support of NTFS on Mac OS X. ![]()
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