Yes.
Another option would be to use a VM or a bootable Linux (USB Stick). I don't know, however, how fast this will be overall, reading non-native filesystem, or through host OS functions, and writing to a native ext2/3 system.
Tuxera NTFS will write 30MByte/s to an external SSD over FW400 on my old Macbook, 65MByte/s through FW800 on my MacBook Pro,
200MByte/s through USB3.0 on the same machine (timed huge file copy, Tuxera NTFS 2016). I have seen write speeds between 20 and 40MByte/s to some older 'economy', but brand USB 3.0 memory sticks (Kingston, Sandisk). More current USB3.0 sticks are faster. HighSpeed USB sticks are costlier than SSD. Always check WRITE performance, very often only Read performance is quoted.
Tuxera NTFS also allows to format drives to NTFS on the Mac, including MBR partition tables.
There are some small quirks with it - Tuxera 2016 comes with a volume manager that allows to format drives - however, for unknown reasons, this volume manager does not allow to format to NTFS - however, the OS X disc utility will offer to format drives to Tuxera NTFS format if Tuxera is installed
Also, if you boot with external NTFS drives connected, at first (at least in Sierra) the native read-only OS X driver will take over these drives, so they appear to be read-only. Just unmount/eject and remount, then Tuxera NTFS will take over and allow writing. You will also see this in a volume's info dialog or Tuxera system prefs.
I repeat my disclaimer from above, ext2/ext3 is the only official DCP drive format for physical mass storage, but whenever I transport my own DCPs to our machines, I use NTFS. I use ext2/ext3 drives when exporting from our servers, and when sending them to fellow operators. But all of them would be okay with NTFS.
Following the
no-drive larger than 2TB -
single MBR partition rules is more important than ext2/ext3 by practical means.
- Carsten