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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1796328" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Hello Haggai, welcome to the forum.</p><p></p><p>1. Right now APFS is only for SSDs, not spinning drives. Once (or if) Apple amends that to work on spinners, I suspect either format will work about the same. APFS is optimized for SSDs, not spinners.</p><p>2. Eventually Paragon will move from beta to production. But the best way to move from either exFAT or NTFS to either apple format is to copy the entire drive to some other place, reformat the drive and then copy back. MacOS can READ exFAT and NTFS drives just fine, so when you get your new Mac, assuming there is sufficient space on the internal drive, one way to accomplish what you want is to create a folder on the internal Mac drive, copy everything from the external to that folder, reformat the drive as you want, copy everything from the folder back to the drive, test that it's all there and then delete the folder from the internal and empty the trash.</p><p>3. If HFS+ is abandoned by Apple then you can convert at that time. No need to get ahead of Apple. If your system can read HFS+, then no matter what Apple may do, as long as you don't update your system you can still read HFS+. So, just make sure any update from Apple does NOT take away read capability for HFS+ before you install it.</p><p>4. No, reliability should be good with an external drive. I have 9 attached.</p><p>5. I think any external will be a bit slower than an internal just because of the interface. But I cannot actually talk with science about USB3 vs SATA III.</p><p>6. You can use a UPS with an external drive, if the drive is powered by the mains. I have several. And if the drive is powered by the USB port, the battery of the MBP will provide the power.</p><p>7. The only limit of drives is the connection ports. If you get a good, powered hub you can plug in as many drives as you want, up to the limit of the powered hub. And if the drives are mains powered, then the limit is the number of ports. There may be some internal limit to the total number of devices, but I suspect it's pretty high. As I said, I have 9 external drives (plus two network attached storage devices).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1796328, member: 396914"] Hello Haggai, welcome to the forum. 1. Right now APFS is only for SSDs, not spinning drives. Once (or if) Apple amends that to work on spinners, I suspect either format will work about the same. APFS is optimized for SSDs, not spinners. 2. Eventually Paragon will move from beta to production. But the best way to move from either exFAT or NTFS to either apple format is to copy the entire drive to some other place, reformat the drive and then copy back. MacOS can READ exFAT and NTFS drives just fine, so when you get your new Mac, assuming there is sufficient space on the internal drive, one way to accomplish what you want is to create a folder on the internal Mac drive, copy everything from the external to that folder, reformat the drive as you want, copy everything from the folder back to the drive, test that it's all there and then delete the folder from the internal and empty the trash. 3. If HFS+ is abandoned by Apple then you can convert at that time. No need to get ahead of Apple. If your system can read HFS+, then no matter what Apple may do, as long as you don't update your system you can still read HFS+. So, just make sure any update from Apple does NOT take away read capability for HFS+ before you install it. 4. No, reliability should be good with an external drive. I have 9 attached. 5. I think any external will be a bit slower than an internal just because of the interface. But I cannot actually talk with science about USB3 vs SATA III. 6. You can use a UPS with an external drive, if the drive is powered by the mains. I have several. And if the drive is powered by the USB port, the battery of the MBP will provide the power. 7. The only limit of drives is the connection ports. If you get a good, powered hub you can plug in as many drives as you want, up to the limit of the powered hub. And if the drives are mains powered, then the limit is the number of ports. There may be some internal limit to the total number of devices, but I suspect it's pretty high. As I said, I have 9 external drives (plus two network attached storage devices). [/QUOTE]
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