Is it my imagination, or is this a bad idea? NTFS external as a Mac drive

I've always heard NTFS and Mac's didn't get along too well.
Today I found out that Seagate is selling NTFS drives as "Mac" drives. Here's a link to their spec sheet:
http://www.seagate.com/www-content/product-content/backup-plus-fam/backup-plus-d esk-mac-v2/en-us/_amer/docs/backup-plus-desk-mac-v3-ds1759-6-1312us.pdf
Am I crazy or does that sound like a really bad idea.
I keep reading about all the "problems" with external drives and Mavericks and everyone is blaming the OS,which now has me wonderiing just exactly what other stunts some of these drive makera are pulling.
Better yet, why can't Seagate format the drive in an HFS format and sell it like that. IMHO this almost makes no sense!

Mac OS X can read NTFS drives, but cannot write to them without third-party drivers. So unless for some reason you need the drive as NTFS for use with Windows systems, in which case I'd recommend ExFAT rather than NTFS, then yes, it's a bad idea. If you get a drive formatted as NTFS and you will use it only with a Mac, just reformat it to Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
As to why Seagate does that, I'm sure it's because they sell far more aftermarket drives to Windows users than they do to Mac users, so they choose the format that will suit the majority of their customers.
Regards.

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