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by djinn 153 days ago
My decade old WD MyCloud still works perfectly. The drives are healthy. The network functions. But the mobile app stopped connecting years ago;Western Digital sunset the cloud services without warning. The hardware outlived the business relationship.

Meanwhile, my family defaulted to iCloud at $168/year. Forever.

That's when I understood: In 2026, your hardware doesn't fail. Your vendor relationships do.