![]() ![]() In that formatting, a single APFS container and volume were created, filling the whole disk. Each disk was formatted using Disk Utility in macOS 12.3.1. To assess this, I’ve measured read and write performance for a range of six modern hard disks, all of 2 TB capacity, and two SSDs, when running HFS+ and APFS in adjacent partitions. ![]() Although objectively assessing the effects of fragmentation is fraught with difficulty, one basic question is whether there is any difference in performance between the file systems to begin with. That argument may hold good for storage which is in active use, such as boot disks and those containing working files, but appears less compelling in more static use, to contain relatively stable archives or backups in which there is limited turnover of files or data. The most compelling argument for retaining HFS+ is on rotating hard disks, because APFS can result in severe fragmentation, most importantly in the file system metadata, so causing degraded performance as SSDs don’t suffer those performance penalties, this could be a good reason for continuing to use HFS+ on hard disks, while switching SSDs to APFS. The only significant feature of HFS+ lacking in APFS is support for directory hard links, but they are seldom used outside Time Machine backups, and Time Machine now backs up to APFS volumes using a better method in any case. Among these are volume snapshots, sharing of free space between volumes inside the same container/partition, improved reliability thanks to copy-on-write, and special file types such as clones and sparse files. This article considers whether you should choose to continue using HFS+ or switch completely to APFS.īeing the more modern file system, APFS has many features that HFS+ lacks. It’s common knowledge that HFS+ was developed primarily for use on hard disks, and APFS for solid-state drives. Remove unwanted text parts, sort lines or paragraphs, change case, and do much, much more with text.Monterey currently supports two native macOS file systems for general use: Macintosh Extended (HFS+) and Apple File System (APFS). with functions for reformating text paragraphs, cleaning up tabs, quotes, or line endings. Extend your favorite word processor, email app, or web browser e.g. WordService provides a large number of commands for working with selected text. Never launch Calculator again if you just need a quick calculation. Append the result to the formula, replace the selected text, or show the result in a panel. CalcServiceĮnter calculations into any Service-aware app like as Mail, Messages, or any of our apps, and get the result with a single keystroke. They are provided either by the system itself, by third-party applications such as DEVONthink and DEVONagent, or can be installed as separate modules. Services appear in the Mac’s Services sub-menu and act on selected text, pictures, links, or files. Directly access all your apps, your home folder, documents, snippets, or just anything that can be put into a folder. Launch any app with a single menu choice or insert text snippets into your documents. They give you access to your applications, folders, documents, files, and text snippets. Add one or more out of six menus to the right side of your menu bar. ![]()
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