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I wonder if you can draw meaningful conclusions about the reliability of a given brand of SSD with such a small sample size?

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Given our limited sample size, I wouldn't read too much into exactly how many writes each drive handled. The more important takeaway is that all of the SSDs, including the 840 Series, performed flawlessly through hundreds of terabytes. A typical consumer won't write anything close to that much data over the useful life of a drive.

> The more important takeaway

That's exactly the issue - you can't have a takeaway if you don't have a reasonable sample size. Are these drives all in the top 5% of quality for their respective brands? We'll never know unless we do a larger study.

The odds of all six drives being in the top 5% by chance is one in 64 million. So I think we can at least rule out that extreme with decent confidence.

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