#Paragon driver for windows review drivers
#Paragon driver for windows review windows 10

These numbers are about what I get running a benchmark on a Windows machine with USB 3.0. Caveat emptor: this is moving from a 2.5GBit/s ExpressCard bottleneck on my old machine to the SSD’s internal flash bottleneck on the new one, but still – Paragon couldn’t quite saturate the ExpressCard on my old test, and now can just about saturate the SSD. But the SSD performance delta has expanded from about 40% better for Paragon to more like 75% better for Paragon. For spinning disks, the performance comparison is mostly unchanged – they’re both about the same, and performance varies ☑0MB/s on the benchmark anyway depending on the direction of the wind. Long story short: Paragon pretty much smokes Tuxera. Minor point to Paragon for making an obvious effort to keep pace with Mojave. The UI differences are sort of neither here nor there, although for my money, change is good. If you don’t find that useful, you can turn it off. It now comes with a pretty menu item which shows your drives and offers quick access repair/mounting/etc. It has some pretty looking tools and interfaces, although I don’t think they change much in a practical sense. Paragon has developed significantly since last year. That makes Paragon a pretty darn good deal.) What’s different?įeatures and interface. ( UPDATE: Originally, I thought the package suite was on SALE for $50, but I think that’s actually the normal price and $100 is what you’d pay if you bought each alone. These factors make things a little less straightforward, but still I feel sum up in Tuxera’s favor.

#Paragon driver for windows review drivers

Winner: Tuxera. Except, there are some extenuating circumstances at the moment: Tuxera’s currently on sale for $18, and Paragon has released a package suite of drivers which includes free upgrades, and is $50. Tuxera still charges $31 for thiers, on a per-user basis with free upgrades to new versions. Paragon still charges $20 for their NTFS driver, licensed per-machine with no upgrades.

#Paragon driver for windows review windows 10

Part of my plan for this machine going forward is to start running space-intense tasks like VMs and my photo library from an external NVMe SSD that can actually utilize that silly bandwidth, and may itself be shared with Windows 10 machines, so here we are. That almost includes some hypothetical external RAMdisk. Some things have changed – we’re on High Sierra looking to Mojave now, both drivers have new versions out, and this new machine now has not only USB 3.1 Gen2, but more generally, 160GBit/s I/O that could fully saturate virtually any storage device you could plug into it. I just bought a shiny new too-expensive-and-questionably-fit-for-sale MacBook Pro 2018, and the question is newly prescient.

Last year, out of necessity to figure out which tool to use, I posted a comparison of Tuxera and Paragon NTFS drivers on macOS Sierra.