Electronics typically follow a "bathtub" reliability curve. You'll have a large number of early failures (unflatteringly called "infant mortality") then the cu

Electronics typically follow a "bathtub" reliability curve. You'll have a large number of early failures (unflatteringly called "infant mortality") then the curve levels off for a long period of time, and then starts rising again as the items start wearing out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve It'd be interesting to see if BackBlaze sees this in their drive populations.