MountMate: The Minimalist’s Solution for Efficient macOS External Drive Management

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MountMate: A Minimalist Approach to External Drive Management on macOS Traditional Hard Drive Management Challenges For macOS users maintaining persistent external storage connections, device management has long been a balancing act between accessibility and system efficiency. When dealing with mechanical hard drives, constant disk activity causes both audible distraction and performance degradation. The default macOS behavior of automatically mounting all connected drives during system wake cycles creates unnecessary resource consumption. Through extensive user observation, developers identified critical pain points in existing solutions: Disk Utility requires three-step operation for basic mounting Custom shell scripts demand technical expertise Third-party alternatives often exhibit …