APFS fully supported?

Mr_Singleton · 20 March 2019 at 4:13PM

Will be buying one of the new 27” iMacs within the next week or so and can’t find anywhere that says if it’ll support APFS.
Anyone know?
Thanks.

agrinnall · 20 March 2019 at 5:23PM

There's an article here that suggests that the Fusion Drives are not compatible with APFS.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykarcz/2017/09/26/most-new-imacs-cant-benefit-from-macos-high-sierras-best-update/#7c3877c676a4

Mr_Singleton · 20 March 2019 at 8:29PM

agrinnall wrote: »

There's an article here that suggests that the Fusion Drives are not compatible with APFS.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykarcz/2017/09/26/most-new-imacs-cant-benefit-from-macos-high-sierras-best-update/#7c3877c676a4

Thanks..... have been looking around and most information saying APFS isn’t compatible is 12/18 months old.

I’ll pop into the Apple Store tomorrow.

Chino · 20 March 2019 at 9:23PM

The Wikipedia article on APFS references this Ars Technica article, dated 24/9/2018, which says:

"For starters, any Mac that wasn’t automatically switched to APFS last year will get switched when you upgrade to Mojave—even installing Mojave on an external HFS+ volume now converts it to APFS. This includes Macs with spinning hard drives (mostly older Macs, though some current iMacs and Mac Minis still ship with HDDs, ... and Fusion Drives. That’s good news for anyone with a Fusion Drive, since Apple implemented some APFS features specifically to benefit them."

datostar · 21 March 2019 at 9:17AM

Chino wrote: »

The Wikipedia article on APFS references this Ars Technica article, dated 24/9/2018, which says:

"For starters, any Mac that wasn’t automatically switched to APFS last year will get switched when you upgrade to Mojave—even installing Mojave on an external HFS+ volume now converts it to APFS. This includes Macs with spinning hard drives (mostly older Macs, though some current iMacs and Mac Minis still ship with HDDs, ... and Fusion Drives. That’s good news for anyone with a Fusion Drive, since Apple implemented some APFS features specifically to benefit them."

Absolutely. My late 2012 iMac is happily running Mojave from an APFS external SSD. I have formatted a Thunderbolt drive daisychain all to APFS too. There are a number of advantages to it. including the fact that you can add extra 'volumes' to a single partition drive without having to re-partition it.

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