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I just upgraded my old iMac (Mid 2010) to High Sierra which has a custom upgraded drive (Crucial 500GB). Running encrypted (FileVault) on previous Sierra and ne
by nodesocket 9y ago
I just upgraded my old iMac (Mid 2010) to High Sierra which has a custom upgraded drive (Crucial 500GB). Running encrypted (FileVault) on previous Sierra and new High Sierra.
I am not seeing any difference in terms of read and write performance according to Blackmagic Disk Speed Test.
Solid 250 MB/S read and write for both HFS+ Encrypted and APFS Encrypted.
The caveat is that I know the iMac machine is old. I am in the process of upgrading my one month old 2017 MacBook Pro with Touchbar to High Sierra and will return with those results to see if indeed APFS encrypted shows a significant slowdown on newer hardware.
- diwu1989 9y agoYou're saturating your SATA2 port, the bottleneck isn't the filesystem in your case, its the physical hardware.
- nodesocket 9y agoMy new MacBook Pro 2017 with Touchbar is almost done with the upgrade to High Sierra. Will advise once that is complete.