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I have a 2017 5K iMac running Mojave 10.14.6. It has a 2 TB Fusion drive internally formatted as HFS+. FileVault is not enabled, but I wish to do so. Will the disk have its format changed to APFS if I enable FileVault?
My recollection is that the disk was originally formatted as HFS+ from the factory and when I turned on FileVault, the format changed to APFS. Granted that was over a year ago, so I could be very off-base.
I want to prevent going to APFS again. The performance degraded to dismal levels. Now that I have reformatted as HFS+, it is surprisingly speedy.
In addition to supporting APFS file system, it also supports old file systems such HFS, HFS+ etc. It supports data recovery from Mac Book Pro, Air, Mini, iMac and other Mac devices. The software can be used with various brands of hard drives like Seagate, SanDisk, WD, Buffalo etc. A short screen grab showing how to use diskutil in terminal on High Sierra 10.13 to convert an HFS drive to the new Apple APFS file system (non destructively). Wait a few minutes until the conversion process is finished and a green check mark will appear. Click the Done button. That’s it, you’re done. Now the hard drive is formatted in the APFS, which we can verify by the inscription “APFS Volume APFS” instead of “USB External Physical Volume Mac OS Extended (Journaled.
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How to convert your drive to APFS: Restart the Mac into Recovery Mode. Launch Disk utility. Click-select your named boot volume. (Not the physical drive above it.) Click 'Deactivate' Toolbar item. Convert to APFS' from the Edit menu. Read this informative post to convert HFS to APFS in an effortless way. We have provided easy steps to convert HFS to APFS with a recovery tool tutorial.
FileVault and APFS are two very different things; enabling one doesn’t enable (or necessitate) enabling the other.
FileVault is encryption - it scrambles, to put it simply - the contents of your drive with a known key. Specifically, it uses a 128bit AES encryption with a 256bit key. See Use FileVault to encrypt the startup Disk for additional details. You can encrypt JHFS+ formatted volumes as well as APFS volumes.
APFS (Apple File System) is simply Apple’s next generation file system. As far as encryption goes, it supports it natively unlike JHFS+.
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Asked by Paul Waldo
I have a 2017 5K iMac running Mojave 10.14.6. It has a 2 TB Fusion drive internally formatted as HFS+. FileVault is not enabled, but I wish to do so. Will the disk have its format changed to APFS if I enable FileVault?
My recollection is that the disk was originally formatted as HFS+ from the factory and when I turned on FileVault, the format changed to APFS. Granted that was over a year ago, so I could be very off-base.
I want to prevent going to APFS again. The performance degraded to dismal levels. Now that I have reformatted as HFS+, it is surprisingly speedy.
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FileVault and APFS are two very different things; enabling one doesn’t enable (or necessitate) enabling the other.
FileVault is encryption - it scrambles, to put it simply - the contents of your drive with a known key. Specifically, it uses a 128bit AES encryption with a 256bit key. See Use FileVault to encrypt the startup Disk for additional details. You can encrypt JHFS+ formatted volumes as well as APFS volumes.
APFS (Apple File System) is simply Apple’s next generation file system. As far as encryption goes, it supports it natively unlike JHFS+.
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