My Hard Drive (HDD) Not SSD is APFS??

[EmmaL20]

Main Topic:

Upon opening disk utility I noticed my internal hard drive (HDD not SSD)was seen as APFS formatted?

Not sure if it has anything to do with my hard drive's poor performance but it really feels like the drive is on the verge of death and I don't know if I should just reformat the whole thing.

Side Note:

In the best case scenario I'd love to be able to just open up my iMac to change the HDD to SSD but it's quite costly to do it and the process seems kinda difficult.

Any advice would be appreciated

 

[ThinkYEAH]

Check if your drive health is ok, in case that drive is okay then you may try formating it, if health is not good then buy a ssd.

Regards

 

[Crash0veride]

I don’t know how long it’s been since it updated, but HDDs are supposed to have slower intial performance as APFS has some background defrag tasks for HDDs, but in the end APFS performance difference hasn’t been noticeably different on externals for me. if it’s terribly terribly slow, i would guess there’s else on your system slowing things as well.

 

[Fishrrman]

What year was the iMac made?
Does it have USB3?

If the answer is yes, you can greatly improve its performance WITHOUT opening it up (or paying to have someone do it) by adding an EXTERNAL USB3 SSD and setting that up to become your boot drive.

It's cheap, it's easy, and ANYONE can do this. That means you.

But you need USB3.
Do you have it?

 

[ludykriz]

I have a flash drive hooked on a PCI card that is APFS and would like to re-format it to Journaled and install OSX on.. how do I do that? Disk Utility doesnt even see that drive..

 

[Fishrrman]

"I have a flash drive hooked on a PCI card that is APFS and would like to re-format it to Journaled and install OSX on.. how do I do that? Disk Utility doesnt even see that drive.."

You could start out by telling us what kind of Mac you have and what year it was made...

 

[ludykriz]

its 2012 mac pro.. but i took it to the apple store and they hooked it up to a virtual mojave and wiped it that way..

 

[ThinkYEAH]

What year was the iMac made?
Does it have USB3?

If the answer is yes, you can greatly improve its performance WITHOUT opening it up (or paying to have someone do it) by adding an EXTERNAL USB3 SSD and setting that up to become your boot drive.

It's cheap, it's easy, and ANYONE can do this. That means you.

But you need USB3.
Do you have it?

Well said