WD not making personal cloud drives?

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WD not making personal cloud drives??? I went on site to checkout buying another cloud HD and none are listed. What’s up?
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It has been that way for a while. The personal cloud hardware business was always a poor business model because home users are poor maintainers of their own data and they will always eventually migrated to the cloud storage as a service model dominated by trillion dollar companies.

This is one of the reason Apple, Google, Amazon, MSFT are trillion dollar companies and WD which is at the same age as Apple is only worth a few billion.

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I can see the move to paid cloud service, but when I backup home PC’s it would take excessive time to do so. Good to know there are other companies that still offer personal cloud products.
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Did WD also stop doing firmware updates if needed? Current 9.7.0-104

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WD discontinued its My Cloud Home and similar personal cloud drives. They now focus on SanDisk ibi for personal storage and WD My Passport or NAS solutions for alternatives. You may still find My Cloud drives from third-party sellers, but official support is shifting toward other products.

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This is exactly nonsense. This subject has covered many times and Sandisk ibi has already seen End of Life as of September 2024. The My Cloud Home will see End of Life service by end of 2027 and will be supported until then.

Mobile and cloud access for ibi which uses the same firmware as the My Cloud Home is ending, will the same fate await the MC Home?

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