With the electronics in these Samsung PM991a 2280 form factor drives all concentrated to one side, they look a lot like the PM991 2230 or 2242 models we have seen ‘strapped to a plank.’
There’s therefore a chance that some of the broken devices have survived with no ruptures to the populated PCB segment, and no physical breaks to underlying PCB traces (if they are present/used) in the extended section of these 2280 form factor drives.
If the bent drives can't be reused or easily repaired, we hope the NAND chips can be recycled.
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das_stig The nand itself may be salvaged by a skilled de-soldering technician Reply
acadia11 My household would equal foot in …! Don’t believe in that children don’t get corporal punishment new age soft as Charmin TP …. Kids have been getting … whipping since the dawn of time and we did just fine. 8 billion of us later … seems high time we revert to the mean. This story can’t be real what 10 year old and why? Reply
Gururu Broke plastic key in car door lock, poked holes in dad's headphones…ok I came out of childhood pretty good compared to that. Reply
cyrusfox Most of these likely still function. I have taken a angle grinder to a m.2 drive to make it as small as possible to fit in a custom memory card, all my attempts were 100% successful (PCB trimming is a thing). Its only broken if it disconnected any of the traces where the components live. One would hope a ten year old should know better, from an 8 year old or younger, more expected to find this level of destruction, we all mature at different rates. poor kid and father. Condolences Reply
King_V Come on, now. We all know this kid is an undercover agent on the payroll of Big SSD™. He's only just started on his mission. Reply
Bob.B Admin said: Tragic images showing 50 mangled M.2 SSDs has been shared on social media. It looks like a naughty boy was the culprit. 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 : Read more Kids are designed to drive parents nuts. Reply
GoneRogue Damn this article was really drilling the kid in the title Reply
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