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I would like to take steps to move from High Sierra to Mohave. Since my start-up drive in my Mid 2012 Mac Pro is still a rotational HDD, is there an option to stay with HFS?
I'm reading conflicting reports regarding the necessity to use APFS with Mojave.
Some of the articles state if you do not have a Solid State Drive, don't use APFS
I understand I have to use a Metal capable graphics card for my vintage Mac Pro.
Can anyone shine a light on this?
Thanks
You can still use HFS+ on a rotating hard drive. You have no choice with an SSD for Mojave or Catalina. It will always be APFS. Even if you first format it as HFS+. Installing Mojave or Catalina will automatically change an SSD to APFS.
Yes, you'll need an upgraded video card that supports Metal in order to install Mojave on a 2012 Mac Pro. Not exactly sure which ones work for that model. I had an EVGA GeForce GTX680 Mac Edition card in a 2010.
Edit: Looks like, yes, this card is also supported in a 2012. There are LOTS of various 680 cards. Only this one is specifically for Macs that will work alone with a boot screen.
You can still use HFS+ on a rotating hard drive. You have no choice with an SSD for Mojave or Catalina. It will always be APFS. Even if you first format it as HFS+. Installing Mojave or Catalina will automatically change an SSD to APFS.
Yes, you'll need an upgraded video card that supports Metal in order to install Mojave on a 2012 Mac Pro. Not exactly sure which ones work for that model. I had an EVGA GeForce GTX680 Mac Edition card in a 2010.
Edit: Looks like, yes, this card is also supported in a 2012. There are LOTS of various 680 cards. Only this one is specifically for Macs that will work alone with a boot screen.
You can launch the installer from Terminal and include the "--converttoapfs NO"
—download the installer, quit it like any other app if it launch automatically
—If the installer is sitting in your Applications folder
—replace the "/Volumes/MyDisk" by dragging your hard drive to the terminal window to complete the path
— append with a trailing "--converttoapfs NO"
the command line as follows:
sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Mojave.app/Contents/Resources/startosinstall --volume /Volumes/MyDisk --converttoapfs NO
it could be the rotational HDD will only install as HFS+ this I don't recall.
I do know when I first installed it on my 2012 MBP w/ SSD I did it as HFS+ before apfs proved itself— easy enough to convert later on the fly.
Apple has archived the article for Mojave required graphic cards for the 2012 Mac Pro. Only Mac Pro 2013 or later can upgrade to Catalina.
Yes. I only mentioned Catalina in reference to the requirement of an SSD being APFS.
Can I install Mojave on a HDD using HFS
