> Well, shit. I've had one of these as a stand-in for hopefully eventually getting a Synology NAS, and now I'm paranoid about continuing to use my WD MyCloud.
The hardware is still fine. You can put Debian on it!
There is a very active forum of people replacing the WD firmware with Debian on various models (EX2 Ultra, EX2100, EX4100): https://forum.doozan.com/list.php?2