Scolding him is too lenient a punishment: a Vietnamese schoolboy tested the flexibility of SSD drives by bending 50 brand-new circuit boards (3 photos)
The "wunderkind's" father bought hardware expecting a profit, but ended up losing $4,000. 
In Vietnam, a ten-year-old schoolboy crash-tested computer hardware and bent 50 new Samsung SSDs, costing his father nearly $4,000 worth of goods. A PC builder recently bought a box of fifty Samsung PM991a 512GB OEM modules amid rising prices and brought them home, while his son decided to test the bendability of the thin boards. 
When the owner returned, he found a row of banana-shaped SSDs on his desk: each module was bent to varying degrees, and some had visible cracks in the PCB. One such drive costs around 2 million Vietnamese dong (approximately $75-80), so he estimated the total damage at $3,800.
Theoretically, there's a chance to salvage some of the drives: the main electronics on these M.2 modules are located on the short end of the board, and the empty end often bends more easily and may not damage the tracks. However, experts note that a seriously warped SSD is considered defective, and even if it does work, the reliability of such a drive is highly questionable. 
The story first appeared in the Vietnamese Facebook community Build PC, and then spread across specialized media and forums, where the father has already been dubbed "the unhappiest dad in the world." In the comments, enthusiasts draw one main conclusion: expensive and fragile components should be kept out of reach of children, otherwise, ordinary childhood curiosity can easily turn into significant financial losses.
