High Sierra Now Available

[DaveWT]

High Sierra became available today.

I updated my iMac first and although the download part took a long time due to the heavy first day demand, the update went smoothly.
Because my iMac has a Fusion drive, the new file system is not yet available to me.



Next I updated my wife's MacBook Pro and again, all went smoothly. Because her Mac has an SSD, the new file system was put in place.




She doesn't have a lot on her drive but even then she gained back about 4 GB of storage due to the new file system.

Now to get on with the new system.

 

[chas_m]

As you probably know, Apple has said that Fusion Drives will be upgraded in a future update.

Cheers
Chas

 

[DaveWT]

Yes, and I hope it comes in an update soon. Not sure why I want it other to be able to keep up with the latest technologies.

 

[chas_m]

Yes, and I hope it comes in an update soon. Not sure why I want it other to be able to keep up with the latest technologies.

There are some other benefits, like massively faster copying, better security, etc.

You can read more about APFS and its advantages here:
https://www.cultofmac.com/435718/apfs-n ... le-system/

And of course it’s been on your mobile devices for a year or two now...

 

[DaveWT]

You can read more about APFS and its advantages here:
https://www.cultofmac.com/435718/apfs-n ... le-system/

One statement I didn't understand in that article...

"APFS can’t be used on startup disks or Apple’s Fusion Drives"

I understand the second half (Fusion Drives like my iMac) but the first part (startup disks) I assume does NOT include an SSD as a startup disk. My wife's MacBook Pro with SSD only certainly went to APFS as the second screenshot in my original post shows.

 

[chas_m]

One statement I didn't understand in that article...

"APFS can’t be used on startup disks or Apple’s Fusion Drives"

I understand the second half (Fusion Drives like my iMac) but the first part (startup disks) I assume does NOT include an SSD as a startup disk. My wife's MacBook Pro with SSD only certainly went to APFS as the second screenshot in my original post shows.

Either that's a flat-out mistake, or just really poor wording by the writer. In the latter case, what he or she ("Killian" is a name now?) meant to say was that HARD DRIVE startup disks (or indeed any hard drives) can't be formatted for APFS at present. Currently it is only for full SSD storage media, for which the term "disk" is sometimes colloquially used but isn't accurate -- the D in SSD stands for "drive".

Hope that clears it up.