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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Mark Tyson

Boy breaks 50 of his father's Samsung M.2 NVMe SSDs worth nearly $4,000 — 25,600 GB of storage ruined by ten-year-old oblivious to global NAND crisis

50 broken Samsung PM991a SSDs.

Tragic images showing 50 mangled M.2 SSDs have been shared on social media. Sticks of speedy NVMe flash storage, like these Samsung PM991a models, are currently in high demand. However, it would be a hard sell to shift these particular samples, with their newfound non-factory-standard banana-curved profiles. The culprit? A ten-year-old boy, oblivious to the world's global NAND crisis, according to 'the most miserable dad in the world.'

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