On Saturday, August 23, 2003, at 10:16 PM, Anonymous Prime wrote:Only if you need to use the drive in OS 8.0 or earlier should you really consider HFS Standard on an iMac, and I don't think anything prior to 8.1 will run on an iMac anyway.
You wouldn't have a choice. Nothing before 8.1 supports HFS+.
This is why i'd only consider it if I was running a version of Mac OS prior to 8.1 :)
There's really no reason to use regular HFS anymore, unless there's a really old mac (pre-PPC) involved.
HFS+ slows down older machines,
Yes, but not that much. I have (still!) a 6200, the slowest power mac ever made (it had a higher clock speed than some others, but used a 603 (NOT a 603e) and was amazingly slow). It had a 15GB HD on it and OS 8.6 for many years (and 8.1 before) and HFS+ running SIMS and Macjordomo and NetPresenz on a dedicated connexion (T1). It ran fine and had no trouble keeping up with large volumes of mail.
Not saying I would want to sit down in front of it and USE it, but then again, it had ALWAYS been slow, even when it first arrived.
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