APFS performance on spinning disk drives is abysmal, it only works well on SSDs (not even fusion drives as they have a spinning disk component).
That’s why Macs with spinning disks and fusion drives on Mojave or later slow down, replace the hard drive with SSD and you get a sudden massive speed increase. _ Regards Sam Mullen +44 (0)7747778022 [email protected] www.macambulance.com MacAmbulance Ltd. Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration number 8466597 This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. On 4 Mar 2021, at 11:36, 'Jason Davies' via Sussex Mac User Group <[email protected]> wrote: Curious about why not AFPS? Is there a particular reason? cheers, Jason On 4 Mar 2021, at 10:24, Sam - MacAmbulance wrote: > That’s right yes, you can format any USB drive for Mac. Format it with the > GUID partition scheme (not Master Block Record MBR as that’s for PCs) and use > the macOS Extended (Journaled) format. Cheers, Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/82872453-1D9D-4493-9FFD-AFFD19C8136E%40me.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/3A372476-3EE1-46E2-80B3-19510E4C8799%40macambulance.com.
