The missing read/write NTFS support in Mac OS is a real pain, especially for “switchers” that maybe still have USB hard- or thumbdrives with NFTS partitions. Meanwhile I found out, that you can include “full” NTFS support for Mac OS easily:
First you need to install MacFuse, then install NTFS-3G. There are two builds of the latter software. I tried the “stable” built first, which is awfully slow. Copying a 5 Gig File to the NTFS partition takes 40 (!) minutes. There’s also an other version with caching enabled, that performs much better but is said to cause problems when the computer crashes while a file transfer is in progress. Meanwhile I use the caching enabled version – my Mac doesn’t crash *lol*
Btw.: The good thing about Fuse is, that there are some other file systems that can be mounted, e.g. SSH Filesystem (sshfs).