Data study

Updated May 2026. iFixit publishes a repairability score for every major device they tear down — and the data shows a clear, accelerating decline. We pulled 250+ scores across phones, laptops, tablets, headphones, and game consoles to quantify it. Here's what 8 years of data shows.

Updated May 2026. We analyzed 60,000+ public Reddit posts across 8 tech subreddits to identify the most common failure modes for popular products. The patterns are consistent — and they're rarely what manufacturers warn you about.

Updated May 2026. Backblaze publishes the largest public SSD reliability dataset every quarter — 25,000+ drives, 70+ models, real annualized failure rates. Here's what the 2026 data tells you about which consumer-class NVMe drives you should actually buy.

Updated May 2026. We cross-referenced 200 USB-C cable listings on Amazon claiming '100W' or '240W' support against the USB-IF's official certified products database. Here's what we found — and which brands you can actually trust.

Updated May 2026. Every wireless device sold in the US must be filed with the FCC before it ships. We mined the FCC OET database for every Wi-Fi 7 router authorized in 2026 — including 12 that haven't been publicly announced yet. Here's what's coming.