NTFS for Mac software is a small utility, usually less than 20 MB. To bridge the incompatibility gap, NTFS for Mac comes into play. If you are moving to a Mac from a PC with an NTFS disk, “how to write to NTFS drives” will become the first question you put in Google. The NTFS-formatted drive will appear read-only on a Mac machine by default. However, macOS is not friendly to Microsoft NTFS file system.
With the overwhelming market share of Windows PCs, many external hard drives come with NTFS file system or previous PC owners have formatted external hard drives to NTFS. NTFS, the proprietary file system by Microsoft, has been the primary file system on Windows computers since Windows NT 3.1 operating system, replacing FAT file system.
