Google Drive & file lockers
Personal docs, scans, tax PDFs, shared family folders. Stop treating a free cloud tier as the system of record.
Why households scatter data
Phones push photos to a brand cloud the moment you shoot. Documents land in a free Drive folder because it is easy. Contacts hop from SIM to Google to Apple to a messaging app. The result is a life that only fully exists when someone else’s region is up — and when their terms still allow you in.
MD Vault flips that. The gateway sits on your LAN. Your phones join the house Wi‑Fi. Files, photos, and people records resolve to services on the appliance you purchased. The cloud becomes optional, not the only copy.
What Vault is meant to replace
Phone camera cloud storage
iCloud Photos, Google Photos, OEM gallery backup. Keep the photo and video library on the vault inside the house.
Contact lists on SIM & vendor books
SIM exports, handset address books, and multi-app contact sprawl. One private people directory on your stack.
Generic “phone backup” clouds
Device dumps, notes, downloads, and “sync my stuff” seats that only exist off-prem. Relocate the working copy home.
Shared household archives
Wills, insurance, school records, receipts — private to the household, not sitting in a consumer SaaS folder forever.
Identity-tied personal packs
Anything that today requires a big-tech login just to open your own files. Custody moves to the appliance account you own.
How relocation works on this product
- Install the gateway — physical unit becomes the edge of the home or office network (DHCP, local DNS, Wi‑Fi, Docker stack).
- Claim the appliance — bind it to your MD Hub owner account so files and portals have a clear owner.
- Import personal libraries — move Drive folders, photo exports, contact CSVs/vCards, and device archives onto the vault storage path.
- Point phones at home — on the house SSID, cameras and handsets talk to services on the LAN instead of only to a vendor region.
- Keep AI Guard on — monitoring watches the network and the servers holding that data after the move.
You can still use public internet for email and the open web. The product goal is that the durable personal copy lives in the house — not that you go offline forever. Optional Data Home Relocation assist is $499 on the Purchase catalog.