Managing Your Drives, Big Sur Tips, Ransomware, and More — Mac Geek Gab 840

These days most of us are using external drives at some level. Even if we're not, our internal drives are always in need of some attention, pruning, or some other operation. Listen as your two favorite geeks answer all your drive-related questions. That's not all, of course, we've got more Big Sur tips, ideas for mitigating ransomware, Cool Stuff Found, and much more! Press play and enjoy an hour-or-so with John and Dave!Note: Shownotes are in progress…

Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

• 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 840 for Monday, October 26, 2020

• Quick Tips

  • 00:02:13 Brian-QT-Reset PRAM/NVRAM to solve Quiet Mac
  • 00:04:41 Roy-QT-Auto-Sync Apple TV Wireless Audio
    • Sonos TruePlay
  • 00:07:41 Stephen-QT-Big Sur Clock Workaround
  • 00:09:18 Big Sur Battery Management

• Cool Stuff Found

  • 00:13:38 Rich-CSF-839-RansomWhere?, Forklift, AutoMounter
  • 00:17:37 Rob-839-Protecting from Ransomware
    • Amazon S3
    • Arq from Haystack Software
  • 00:21:30 John-CSF-AmpliFi Alien Dual Wi-Fi 6 System
  • 00:25:52 UCSF-Evernote Upgrades Without AppleScript
  • 00:32:27 Dennis-CSFR-835-Mountain to Control your Mounted Drives
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• SSD/Drives/Data

  • 00:39:36 John-Formatting an External Drive
  • 00:46:14 Andrew-Fusion Drive Performance with Current Versions of macOS
  • 00:50:25 Domenico-Replacing a Fusion Drive with an External SSD
    • Samsung T7
    • OWC Thunderbolt 3 Hub
    • Anker Thunderbolt 3 Hub
    • ORICO 2.5 USB C External Hard Drive Enclosure, SATA III to USB3.1 Gen2 Type C
    • SCOSCHE CC3G23 StrikeLine SuperSpeed+ USB-C to USB-C Charge & Sync Cable 10Gbps/4K Transfer Rate Compatible with USB-C Devices
    • OWC Envoy Express
  • 00:58:00 Bob-Best Drive for Ripping DVDs
    • External Blu-Ray/DVD/USB Drives
    • Pawtec External Optical Drives
    • DaVinci Resolve
  • 01:06:16 Ev-Spindle Drive is Clicking
    • Iomega Zip and Jaz Drives
  • 01:09:59 Mike-Best Steps for Nuke and Pave
    • DiskMaker X macOS Installer Download Links
• 01:16:59 Setting up that new iPhone or iPad
• 01:25:34 MGG 840 Outtro
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