Amazon shopper orders one Samsung 990 Pro SSD and receives 10 by mistake

An Amazon customer reportedly ordered one Samsung 990 Pro SSD but received 10 drives instead, turning a single storage purchase into a box worth nearly $4,800.

The buyer, Reddit user u/TheDankestYo, shared images showing multiple Samsung 990 Pro 2TB PCIe Gen 4 SSDs. The order details showed only one drive was purchased, with a listed price of $479.13. Instead of receiving one SSD, the customer received 10 units.

That makes the extra shipment worth thousands of dollars. At the listed price, 10 of the same drives would cost close to $4,800. The customer also appeared to have ordered other PC parts, including an NZXT Kraken Plus 280 AIO liquid cooler, which suggests the SSD may have been part of a PC build or upgrade.

Mistaken bulk deliveries like this are rare, but they do happen. Similar cases have surfaced before, including one where a customer reportedly received boxes filled with NVMe SSDs after ordering only a small number of drives.

In this case, the buyer now has several possible choices. They could keep the extra SSDs, use them for multiple systems, or sell some of them. The value is high enough to cover a major PC upgrade, including a high end gaming build if the drives were sold.

Still, this is not something shoppers should expect when ordering hardware online. Fulfillment mistakes at large retailers can happen, but they are unusual. Most people ordering one SSD will receive one SSD.

The story stands out because PC hardware has become expensive, and storage mistakes at this scale can feel almost unreal. For one lucky buyer, a normal Amazon order turned into enough premium SSD storage for several powerful systems.