Subject:
Abyssal Node
Location:
Cerium Data Center α-████ ██, Rack 42, Slot 8
Description:
The object appears to be a generic 3.5 inch mechanical hard drive with a matte black chassis. It lacks any manufacturer branding, serial numbers, or barcodes. Despite the absence of an external cooling system, the casing remains permanently cold to the touch (constant 4°C), even under heavy read / write loads.
Acoustic analysis detects a faint, rhythmic vibration of 12 Hz emitting from the casing. This frequency is too low for a spinning platter (7200 RPM) and corresponds closer to the alpha waves of a human brain in a deep resting state. When connected to a standard SATA interface, the BIOS recognizes the device simply as
VOID://DRIVE
and displays the available capacity as "Infinity", causing most standard OS systems to crash immediately upon mounting.
Report:
During a routine hardware upgrade, IT technicians discovered a standard 4TB SATA hard drive that refused to mount correctly. Diagnostics indicated the drive was functioning, but the system reported its available storage capacity as "Infinite."
To test this error, technicians began uploading random data. The drive absorbed ███ Petabytes of data over 24 hours (a transfer speed physically impossible for the cable type). The drive did not heat up, nor did the platter spin. The node has █████████ and █████████████.
Addendum:
The concern is not the storage capacity, but the data retrieval. Files downloaded back from the drive are returned... altered.
A text file containing a simple grocery list was retrieved with three additional items: "Cyanide", "Rope", "Shovel," and "██████."
A photo of a staff member's dog was uploaded. When retrieved two days later, the dog in the photo appeared visibly older, with graying fur and cataracts.