Cars are not consumer grade NAS. If you want your consumer NAS to have the same regulated support requirements, expect to see prices go up by about 5x or more. Auto tech doesn’t age out like computer tech. I wouldn’t want a 20 year old device - the power consumption alone would be horrific, let alone the performance and lack of capability.

These are already 4 years past EOL. Know how long we spec servers for our clients? 5 years, max (we push them to replace at 4 years).

After 5 years the risks go up, and dealing with an outage will cost more in support costs than simply having planned and deployed a new system already.

These devices are double our server lifetime already - last made in 2013.

Again, I do dumb shit like this for my own systems at home, because I deal with the risk myself (redundancy). I’d never let a client do this. If someone had one of these at any point, I would’ve been replacing it - even if it was brand new.

My complaint against Dlink is these things were junk from the start. But expecting anything from them years after EOL is unreasonable.