[Faye Hellner]

Conrad,

While many people on the internet praise about the Paragon NTFS, I have had my share of disappointment in this software. My line of work requires me to have both Mac and PC, I started using both platforms even before cloud services became popular – I used to own 2 external HD, one for each platform and use USBs (FAT32) to transfer files between HDs to back up my files. Then Paragon came along, I test drove it, i liked it and I bought it. It was pretty good for the first few months, then my external HD began to unmount automatically for no reason. This went on for weeks, eventually I gave up and bought another HD. Same thing happened to the new HD after a while. I never had a problem like this before using paragon. Luckily, my files were not corrupted, it just gets super annoying when the HD unmounts itself in the middle of a file transfer and you can imagine how long it took me to take my files (ALL 2TB of it) out of the HD to a safe place. Like you, I am no IT expert, so I can’t really finger point the paragon is the suspect that caused all HD failures, but I STRONGLY believe that it has something to do with it. Bottom line: I think Paragon NTFS is a good idea / a noble concept, it certainly bridges the gap between various platforms, however, I am really skeptical about the reliability of this software and what it does to HDs. With Dropbox and other thousands of similar services out there in the market, I think it’s easier and a lot safer. With that said, I would still manually back up my files to external HDs from time to time (I don’t fully trust cloud services either). Reason? I just lost 12 years of emails because Yahoo had a “system failure” a few years back and there’s nothing they can do about it (google “Yahoo lost emails CEO apologizes). The point is, a 100% fool proof storage system DOES NOT EXIST.