NTFS External Drive takes too long to takes data in Mac ?

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Published on 2010-03-24T15:02:15Z Indexed on 2010/03/24 15:13 UTC
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I've an Seagate 500 GB external HD (NTFS). To read/write it on Mac (OSX 10.6.2) , I've tried MacFUSE and NTFS-3G to write my HD on Mac. Though I could be able to see the hard drive, it takes too long to see the contents like this

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is this normal ? also the data transfer takes too long time and the hard disk becomes too hot .

Any suggestions are most welcome.

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