My MacBook Pro: 2019 Intel, 2.3 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9, 16 GB Memory, AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 4GB, Sonoma 14.4.1. Long-time Windows user, I have a number of NTFS formatted drives I keep around, mostly for retrieving data from. I’ve been using the Paragon for NTFS utility, which has up to 2-3 weeks ago, which worked fine. Not long after updating the OS to 14.1.1, I noticed severe sluggishness with reading and writing data to/from these drives. Can anyone tell me what’s going on here? Is this mean my Mac is not suitable to run macOS Sonoma?
MacBook Pro 2019 is supported by macOS Sonoma officially, so your Mac running sluggishly has nothing to do with your Mac model. However, big files or whopping amount of apps can lags your Mac computer which eats up most hard drive space. You can how much space left on your device and clean them for more available space, which helps your Mac run faster with less accumulated files.
I can’t figure out why macOS Sonoma would speed down your Mac, does your Mac overload to run it? But Apple supports MacBook Pro 2019 to use macOS Sonoma and it means that your Mac is enough totally to use this OS. I think you can close apps or extensions running in the background to see if your Mac works normally.
I speculate the sluggishness isn’t from macOS Sonoma but the NTFS for Mac utility, which might don’t work well on this OS. You can give another NTFS for Mac a chance, like iBoysoft NTFS for Mac, then wait and see if your Mac reads and writes the NTFS hard drive in normal speed.
Why not try to speed test the read and write speed of the NTFS hard drive with a professional speed test tool? This lets you know the read speed of the NTFS hard drive directly. If the read and write speed is fast yet is lagged by your Mac, you’d better clean the big useless files from your device for better performance and fast read/write speed.