New Apple File System Coming in macOS High Sierra Won’t Work With Fusion Drives
18th September 2017
When macOS High Sierra is released to the public next week, the new Apple File System (APFS) feature will be limited to Macs with all-flash built-in storage, which means it won’t work with iMacs that include Fusion Drives.
iMacs with Fusion Drives were converted to APFS during the beta testing process in the first macOS High Sierra beta, but support was removed in subsequent betas and not re-implemented.
This bites big time.
Public Beta testers who had an iMac with a Fusion Drive converted to APFS will need to follow a long list of instructions to convert back to HFS+, including making a Time Machine Backup, creating a bootable installer, and using Disk Utility to reformat their iMacs and reinstall macOS High Sierra.
All together now: ‘Steve wouldn’t have done put up with this.’
I smell a plot to strong-arm people into buying the more expensive all-flash memory machines. But that’s me.
September 19th, 2017 at 14:58
By “Steve”, you of course mean Wozniak.
Screwing customers into using only Apple products (esp. new products) is pure Steve Jobs.