Best format for secondary harddrive (NO OS installed) APFS or HFS+
hi there
I would like to know regarding format on my secondary hard drive on my MacBook Pro. At this moment my main SSD drive is on APFS format & my secondary drive I'm using 2TB Seagate Firecuda SSHD. Should I format the SSHD into APFS too like my main SSD drive or just leave it as it is MacOS Journaled? There's NO OS/OSX/APPLICATIONS in that secondary drive 2TB Seagate Firecuda SSHD.
EtreCheck Report generated 2017-09-22
Update (09/27/2017)
done...its faster than mac os journaled...via blackmagic disk speedtest
when on HFS Mac Os Journaled
on APFS
again this secondary harddrive im using SSHD Seagate firecuda..there's no Mac Osx/OS/Operating system even applicatons..is just a back up for non-system files like documents,pictures,videos,audio files and application installers that still in zip files or dmg...
im not rebooting my macbook from this secondary drive...my main drive is my 2TB SSD...
Is this a good question?
I have the same set up on my MBP Early 2012. I chose Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and I use it for installing some large applications.
by BigBoy Dila
Keep in mind some MacBook Pro's have issues with the optical bay SATA port. This is not the drive carriers fault, but an issue within Apples logic board.
I strongly recommend you review OWC Data Doubler to make sure your system does not have a problem. Also the 2.5" FireCuda drive is a fixed SATA III (6.0 Gb/s) drive unlike the older model which was an auto SATA sense drive which allowed it to work in older SATA II (3.0 Gb/s) systems.
Sorry to say the odd behavior of the MacBook Pro's which have this problem confuses auto SATA sense drives, you'll need a fixed SATA II drive instead (HDD or SSD).
by Dan