Formatting my HD disk
Which formats should I choose. I have a iMac Catalina.?
iMac 21.5″, macOS 10.15
Which formats should I choose. I have a iMac Catalina.?
iMac 21.5″, macOS 10.15
Catalina (and any macOS after Mojave) must use APFS (case insensitive) for the boot disk.
But your disk seems to be a spinning HDD which is VERY slow with APFS so I'd not use that as a Catalina boot disk. Instead, you might either replace it with a SSD disk (might be difficult to do to an iMac) or use an external SSD as a APFS formatted boot disk and internal disk formatted as MacOS Extended (Journaled, case insensitive, GUID) as a data disk.
Data volumes can be other formats but usually it is MacOS Extended for HDD, and APFS for a SSD. exFAT or FAT (GUID or MBR) if you must share files with Windows users.
Catalina (and any macOS after Mojave) must use APFS (case insensitive) for the boot disk.
But your disk seems to be a spinning HDD which is VERY slow with APFS so I'd not use that as a Catalina boot disk. Instead, you might either replace it with a SSD disk (might be difficult to do to an iMac) or use an external SSD as a APFS formatted boot disk and internal disk formatted as MacOS Extended (Journaled, case insensitive, GUID) as a data disk.
Data volumes can be other formats but usually it is MacOS Extended for HDD, and APFS for a SSD. exFAT or FAT (GUID or MBR) if you must share files with Windows users.
Formatting my HD disk