If Apple can't do it…? HFS+ despite being long in tooth performs fine and maintains backwards compatibility, so for me, there are not benefits that make it necessary.Īs for ExFAT and other formatting options, Why? The only reason to use non-native drive formats is if you need to share a drive with a Windows computer. Time Machine still doesn't work and is HFS+ only. There are indeed other issues as reported around the web.Į/7/is-apfs-fully-supported-yet/ĪPFS has improved for spinning disks, remember when you couldn't even use APFS for hdds or Fusion Drives. I think that I disagree with the last paragraph, but then I think that the pluses of APFS is not that great on spinning drives, so I do not recommend APFS on hdds at this time. blog/2/analysis-apf.m_source=xlr8yourmac
Recently found this article by Bombich Carbon Copy Cloner makers on performance hits when using APFS on spinning hard drives.
