Some NTFS drives will not mount - PLEASE HELP

For years I have heard "Apple fan-boys" preaching about how MAC is much better than PC. I am one of the idiots that bought into the hype, and I am regretting it tremendously. I spent over $4000 this month converting my family's computers from PC to Mac, and I am finding it to be one of the biggest mistakes of my life. I have had nothing but problems.
My latest and greatest problem is getting my Mac(s) to mount and read some NTFS drives. I know NTFS does write on MAC without external software, but I am not trying to write NTFS with my Macs. I bought a Glyph 8TB external hard drive that is formatted for Mac. I am simply trying to take five different NTFS external hard drives, and drag their data onto my new 8TB Glyph drive that is formatted to Mac. Here is where it gets weird. I have 2 Samsung 500GB drives (NTFS) that mounted automatically, read and data transferred to my new Mac formatted drive (HTP+) without any problems. But I have 2 Glyph 6TB (NTFS) drives, and a Toshiba 2TB (NTFS) drive - none of which will mount. They didn't mount automatically, like the Samsung drives. They do all show up in disk utility, but when you click "mount" is gives you the "mount failed" error (with the "repair" option grayed out, and unavailable). When plugged back into a PC, all three of the drives function perfectly - so clearly the drives are fine. I would greatly appreciate it if anyone can help. I have spent an entire day of my life searching forums for resolutions on this one simple issue. I see a ton of people are having similar issues. Unlike PC forums that have always been easily able to resolve my major issues with a quick search, it seems that these NTFS mounting issues have Apple, and the entire Apple community, stumped.
To anyone considering the Mac vs. PC conversion, think long and hard before you convert to Mac. The Macs are more fun for video, music and photo editing. But for every other practical application I find that PC was much better. I am regretting giving Apple over $4000 of business. I wish that I could return all 4 Macs that I purchased.
My relevant system info:
Macbook Pro 13"
Intel i7, 8GB memory, 750GB HD
OS X 10.9.4

I can't seem to find a way to edit my initial post (stupidly, it only shows the edit tab on replies). I just want to correct the 6th sentence of my original post. It was meant to read:
"I know NTFS does NOT write on MAC without external software, but I am not trying to write NTFS with my Macs."

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