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by rahimnathwani 482 days ago
With a hard link, the content of each of the two 'files' are identical in perpetuity.

With APFS Clones, the contents start off identical, but can be changed independently. If you change a small part of a file, those block(s) will need to be created, but the existing blocks will continue to be shared with the clone.