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Re:Is Catalina a Good Upgrade Yet? by Wowfunhappy on Monday February 03, 2020 @12:13AM (#22221587)
> I don’t really care about the performance of my external hard drives. They store movies, photos, etc

I care very very very much about the speed of the drive that stores my video files. I need to be able to open and seek through them quickly so I can find the clip I'm looking for. When you're working with ProRes stuff, this becomes a big deal.

Luckily, good quality spinning hard drives can be fast enough, at least for my needs. Unfortunately, they're only fast enough when they're not running APFS. :(

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Re:Is Catalina a Good Upgrade Yet? by jupp0r on Monday February 03, 2020 @12:56AM (#22221760)
> Luckily, good quality spinning hard drives can be fast enough, at least for my needs. Unfortunately, they're only fast enough when they're not running APFS. :(

Nothing prevents you from putting for videos on an HFS+ volume and use it from Catalina. It just can't boot from one.

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Re:Is Catalina a Good Upgrade Yet? by Wowfunhappy on Monday February 03, 2020 @01:10PM (#22227071)
Good point—this conversation got a little muddled. I actually use either ZFS or NTFS + Tuxera for external drives on Mac, which works great (especially ZFS).
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