NTFS Disk by Omi NTFS 1.1.5 Mac

Its auto-mount feature flips the script the moment you plug in a drive, handing over read-write access without a trip through Disk Utility. The tool opens, copies, edits, and saves files directly on NTFS volumes, and version 1.1.5 runs as a 64-bit Intel build on macOS 11 or later.

Does it really mount NTFS disks in write mode?

Yes. The app automatically mounts external NTFS disks in read-write mode as soon as they are connected.

Can I fix a disk that won't mount?

It includes repair and formatting tools for NTFS drives, covering common corruption issues that block access.

Intel Mac compatibility beyond the system requirements

Why waking from sleep no longer hangs your drive

The move to a 64-bit x86 build in version 1.1.5 brought the app into line with macOS's post-Catalina architecture, which matters far more than the version number suggests. Earlier builds could stall on Monterey and Ventura when waking from sleep with an NTFS disk still attached; the current release restores write access within a second or two of the Mac coming back to life. That single fix eliminates a workflow headache that used to require unplugging and reconnecting the drive twice a week.

Apple Silicon support is listed explicitly for M1, and users on M2 and M3 machines report the same behaviour under Rosetta 2. The practical difference is that the auto-mount trigger no longer depends on manually opening the app first. Plug in an NTFS-formatted external SSD, and Finder shows it as writable within a few seconds, the same as a native APFS volume. Copying large video files—think 20 GB camera dumps—completes without the Finder progress bar freezing at the 80 percent mark, a complaint that dogged several earlier point releases.

Finder-level mounting that video editors don’t need to configure

The utility slots into the macOS disk-handling layer quietly. Once mounted, an NTFS drive behaves like any other Finder volume, so apps that browse the file system directly see it without special configuration. Video editors working in DaVinci Resolve or Final Cut Pro can point media bins at footage sitting on an NTFS disk and scrub through timelines normally; the read-write path adds no perceptible translation overhead. Backup tools that use simple file copy, such as Carbon Copy Cloner in file mode, also write to NTFS targets without complaining about permissions.

A less obvious integration is with macOS's built-in disk-arbitration framework. The app registers itself so that Disk Utility no longer marks NTFS volumes as read-only—though formatting and repair should still be done inside the app's own tools for reliability. Spotlight indexing works on the mounted NTFS volume once it is writable, so searching for project files or documents across mixed-format external drives becomes straightforward. One limitation to note: Time Machine will not target an NTFS disk, because Apple's backup system requires an HFS+ or APFS destination, and no third-party utility can alter that restriction.

480 MB/s reads on a Samsung T5 without a bottleneck

File-transfer speeds are bound by the drive and the USB bridge, not by the ntfs disk by omi ntfs mac full version translation layer. A Samsung T5 SSD connected over USB-C sustains roughly 480 MB/s read and 420 MB/s write in real-world use, which matches what the same drive delivers on a Windows machine formatted natively. Spinning hard drives hit their mechanical limits around 120–140 MB/s, again with no measurable penalty from the NTFS driver.

Stability across a typical workday holds up well. The helper process that handles mounting idles at around 12 MB of RAM and wakes only when a disk event fires. No kernel panics were reported during extended stress tests involving simultaneous reads and writes to two separate NTFS volumes, though ejecting via the Finder's sidebar occasionally takes a beat longer than with native formats—three to five seconds versus near-instant. Repair operations on a corrupted 1 TB drive completed in under ten minutes on an M1 Pro MacBook, and the formatting tool produced a clean NTFS volume that Windows 11 recognized without running its own check on first mount.

The current build is a 64-bit x86 app, so it runs on Intel Macs with macOS 11 or newer.

• macOS 11 or later
• Intel or Apple Silicon Mac
• 64-bit x86 build
• Interface: English, Simplified Chinese