2/29/2024 0 Comments Apple apfs vs mac os extendedOverall, MPG strongly recommends sticking with MacOS Extended (Journaled) format for any hard drive storage, backup or otherwise. But a proper backup strategy should never have to resort to recovery of a damaged volume. Deciding between APFS and Mac OS Extended journaled for formatting a drive can be challenging. But still, APFS is a better choice for your external SDD. Should a drive crash and need recovery, APFS is more or less hopeless whereas MacOS Extended volumes have strong industry support. But, the biggest advantage of the Apple File System is that it is not compatible with Time Machine backups, which means you can make a copy of your Mac to an APFS drive using Apples backup tool Time Machine. Don’t expect good speed, but if that is a goal (it isn’t, for me), then APFS should be used. Tradeoffs exist: fans of versioned snapshots might with to use APFS even on hard drives. Even initially, I have observed extremely poor performance with some operations (eg file deletion). AFAIK, this is inherent to its design and thus the use of macOS Ventura vs macOS Monterey or earlier has no relevance.ĪPFS used on a hard drive will get slower and slower over time, far above and beyond conventional fragmentation. MPG: APFS was designed assuming a fast random access device eg an SSD.ĪPFS can be used for hard drives but because of the way it organizes and allocates information, it is a bad match to the performance characteristics of a hard drive. Has anything changed to recommend one format over the other for HDD?Īfter getting formatted I have to decide on a naming convention and volumes to streamline drives and multiple backups using cloning. See an article you had from 2021 saying Mac OS Extended (Journaled) for HDD but see other sites OWC, Apple recommending APFS on newer OS. It is optimized for an SSD or a flash drive. In fact, Apple created a file system specifically for SSD’s called APFS (Apple File System). Both file system formats will run fine on external SSD’s. I am finding different recommendations on line for formatting a traditional spinning HDD for Mac using Ventura. MacOS Extended in 1998 for Mac OS X by Apple. I am setting up my first OWC 4 bay Mercury Elite Pro Quad for backup purposes, Time Machine, Lightroom Catalog, etc. SEND FEEDBACK Related: backup, hard drive, reader commentįirst want to thank you for the amazing information and testing you provide.
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