How to Erase and Reformat External Storage to APFS in Disk Utility on Mac
If you’re using an SSD with a Mac, you’ll want to make sure that drive is formatted to APFS. Here’s how to do it with macOS Disk Utility.
If you’re using an SSD with a Mac, you’ll want to make sure that drive is formatted to APFS. Here’s how to do it with macOS Disk Utility.
APFS snapshots can be a handy way to check in on a specific system state after backup. But there’s also a pretty big drawback to using them.
The all-new version of MacDrive is updated from top to bottom, featuring a new look, and for the first time, full APFS support for Windows.
With macOS Big Sur, you need an APSF-formatted drive to use Time Machine for backing up your files—which could be a problem.
Have you ever been in the hard drive aisle at the electronics store and wondered, “Hey, will this drive work on my computer?” Worry not! This article will help you better understand what all those drive formats mean and which...
Back in December of 2018 when APFS was brand-new in macOS 10.14 Mojave, The Rocket Yard featured an article showing the rather arduous method of reverting an APFS (Apple File System) drive to the older HFS+ format. One of the...
UPDATE:June 15, 2020Changes to macOS and Disk Utility in macOS 10.15 Catalina now make this older method obsolete. Check out this new article to see how to revert an APFS drive to HFS+ easily. Apple's new APFS (Apple File System)...
Watch Tim Standing, VP of Software Engineering for OWC, talk about APFS at the 2018 MacSysAdmin Conference — including the internals of Apple’s new file system, APFS, and how the T2 chip (found in the iMac Pro and 2018 MacBook...
Disk First Aid, currently part of Disk Utility, has long been the go-to utility for verifying and repairing a Mac's storage system. Included as a standalone app with the original Mac OS, it was later folded into Disk Utility when...
