That's the point of the M in MTBF: it's a mean. Some drives underperform, others overperform. One sampling from Backblaze shows this MTBF to be (roughly) accura

That's the point of the M in MTBF: it's a mean. Some drives underperform, others overperform. One sampling from Backblaze shows this MTBF to be (roughly) accurate: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/ssd-edition-2022-drive-stats-review/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/ssd-edition-2022-drive-stats-... Another comparison (by proxy): https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&geo=US&q=mac%20logic%20board%20replacement,mac%20battery%20replacement&hl=en https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...