This is a weird article, it seems targeted at home users, only Stddev is the primary concern the avg home user should have wrt 'reliability' once you get past l

This is a weird article, it seems targeted at home users, only Stddev is the primary concern the avg home user should have wrt 'reliability' once you get past looking at rather or not lifetime is even long enough, and they don't even address that. It's not "how long does the avg ssd last" its "How likely is my ssd likely to die before its time". Step 1: Assume every home user doesn't use backup. Most users have at least one important thing on their hard drive that is not getting backed up right now, either because they don't have a backup solution, or because the thing is located in some non-standard location that is not getting backed up. I can think of one thing on my own computer that qualifies for the latter case right now. Step 2: Now write the article taking step 1 into account. Assume somebody reading this article is going to use it to decide where to store their unbacked up important data. Nobody cares how long the average case is when its longer than they plan to use the drive. They care about the likelihood their unbacked up data will be lost because their ssd died before its time. They care about how well the firmware is designed to handle error cases, does it shut down and refuse to power up or does it go read only? Does minor localized errors in some data cause it to lock out access to all data? Those are the interesting questions wrt to ssds.