When bringing up OCZ' notorious high return rate, and using that to indicate a high failure rate for SSD's, bringing up the IBM DeathStar is a very relevant counterpoint.
Larger cross-batch samples is absolutely a good idea, but the dig at SSD's applies just as much to regular harddrives.
[For those who don't know, DeathStar was a nickname given to the IBM DeskStar line of harddrives after one of the models had a problem that gave them high odds of catastrophic head crashes - so bad in fact that they'd strip most of the magnetic material off the glass platters when they crashed[1] -; out of 10 IBM DeskStar drives we had at the time, all 10 failed within a week or two of each other, under a year after we bought them. The problem was is often considered to be one of the main reasons why IBM unloaded their hard drive business to Hitachi]
