which one is good apfs vs hfs+ for traditional mechanical drive for long life safe data storage

khushalsharma94 wrote:

which one is good apfs vs hfs+ for traditional mechanical drive for long life safe data storage

Erase and reformat a storage device in Disk Utility on Mac

https://support.apple.com/guide/disk-utility/erase-and-reformat-a-storage-device-dskutl14079/19.0/mac/10.15

APFS is optimized for the Flash/SSD storage used in recent Mac computers, it can also be used with older systems with traditional hard disk drives (HDD) and external, direct-attached storage. macOS 10.13 or later supports APFS for both bootable and data volumes

ref: File system formats available in Disk Utility on Mac

https://support.apple.com/guide/disk-utility/file-system-formats-available-in-disk-utility-dsku19ed921c/19.0/mac/10.15

There is a good article from the Maker if Carbon Copy Cloner (I am not associated to this company ) on the topic of APFS vs HFS on Rotational Drives