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Hello, I have a 2TB internal SSD from OWC. When I upgraded to Ventura on my Mac there was a tremendous slowdown listing folder contents. I have found that this is because Ventura prefers the new Apple format APFS. My SSD is HFS+. The solution seems to be to reformat it as APFS but I don't have that option in SoftRAID. Do I reformat it first in Disk Utility? I searched the PDF manual I received with the SSD but there is nothing about APFS. Thanks.
Posted : 11/12/2023 4:37 pm
We cannot convert to APFS. Delete the volume, then create a new one, as APFS.
Posted : 11/12/2023 6:06 pm
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Delete the volume through Disk Utility?
Posted : 11/12/2023 6:09 pm
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In the image I attached, it only shows HFS+ and ExFat as options when deleting the volume. Can you give me a little more detail? Thanks.
Posted : 11/12/2023 8:36 pm
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Thanks! That is what I was missing, was using the wrong terms. Deleted and recreated as RAID 4 for the SSDs. Copying the 1.5TB of data back over from the backups took about 2.5 hours and what a difference in performance. Listing folder contents was previously taking up to 40 seconds for hundreds of files. After the reformat to APFS listing folders with 1000's of files is about one second. Totally worth it.
Posted : 12/12/2023 2:36 pm
