So I won’t 😄. I will however add that the white substance inside and outside is laundry detergent that it had been soaking in for months.
Miraculously the SSD was the only uncorroded and salvageable part. I was able to extract the client’s kids’ minecraft worlds.
This would be a possibility but that doesn’t explain the brute force damage. It would get banged up in the washing machine maybe (although there didn’t seem to be any traces of water on it) but not to such an extent.