I am planning to format a Lacie HD drive to use as a bootable clone of my MacBook SSD running Mojave
and as a external library for my photos and music. Is it safe to use APFS with a HD? I had heard it was only safe to use with SSD.
It is safe to use APFS on rotational disks but not recommended due to the lack of optimization of APFS for hard drives. HFS+ will provide faster operation, and it should be used. This has nothing to do with "safety."
It is safe to use APFS on rotational disks but not recommended due to the lack of optimization of APFS for hard drives. HFS+ will provide faster operation, and it should be used. This has nothing to do with "safety."
No keep any external hard drives or any rotational drives formatted as HFS+ Mac OS X Extended (Journaled) one a GUID Partition Map. APFS should be kept for internal SSDs.
"[...] So when you're trying to see how large a folder is or browsing through several folders, that's going to take a lot longer on an APFS volume atop rotational media than it is on an HFS+ volume on the same hardware.
The other time that the performance difference will be starkly noticeable is when you're booting macOS from a rotational HDD. [...]"
https://bombich.com/blog/2019/09/12/analysis-apfs-enumeration-performance-on-rotational-hard-drives
Thanks. Will stick withHFS+
Thanks will stay with HFS+
Great article! Thanks for the link Matti.
Safety of APFS format
