I tried copying 4GB worth of data to an NTFS volume this way, and the transfer just failed half-way, rendering the disk inaccessible and my computer unbootable, until I manually disconnected the SATA cable from the hard drive. It's extremely buggy and corrupts entire volumes in certain situations.

However, it's disabled by default for NTFS volumes, and for good reason. Using the built-in NTFS drivers - Writing to NTFS drives is a functionality that's been built into OS X for some time.

There are a few ways to enable NTFS write support on OS X. It's 2016, Apple, wake up! People who work together in the same office, on different operating systems, should be able to exchange files via USB flash drive with ease, without having to worry about formatting their drives with a cross-platform filesystem, like exFAT. You plug in a USB flash drive from a co-worker who uses Windows to simply copy over a file, only to realize that you can't actually write to NTFS-formatted drives on Mac out of the box. Write to NTFS Partitions in OS X 10.11 El Capitan Jan 6, 2016

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