> You should have your drives formatted to HFS+ for any OS 8.1 or above, as
> long as those drives don't have to be accessed by a machine running any OS
> before 8.1 (they can't see files on HFS+ format drives). Just a cryptic
> readme that tells you were all of your data has gone to. An alternative to
> reformatting (but not backing up!) is PlusMaker by Alsoft. Not a free
> solution, but pretty easy. Check it out here:
>
> http://www.alsoft.com/PlusMaker/index.html
>
> No affiliation to Alsoft, just a happy user of this product.
My main interest is how much of a speed increase people have observed
going from HFS to HFS+. I'm willing to lose the backwards compatibility
if I can get a faster boot-up.
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