According to UniRecovery LAboratory http://www.unirecovery.co.uk, it is reported that the Chinese are currently testing the manufacturing of new hard disk drives by pioneer new coating materials for the magnetic media/platters, involving the development of mixing plastic based materials with metalic alloy even further, in contrast to the current thin layer of Ferric oxide or an Cobalt alloy (Co-Ni, Co-Cr, Co-Ni-W). Apparently they are collaborating with Saeagate to test a new method of sub-dividing the platters, the hardware world is yet to see and test. Reportedly, the new HDD design is more robust, providing smoother surface for the head to have smoother fly.



The Chinese have been investing heavily in the hardware technology, this investment has been the centre of the Chinese focus since the US spy plane collided in mid-air with a Chinese fighter jet in the Chinese aerospace and had to crash land on a Chinese island. The Chinese were reported to have scaned, cloned and analyzed every inch of the aircraft component, and managed to have found the damaged hard disk and carried out data recovery on the disk containing highly classified reconnaissance data, including data related to the location from which the aircraft took off from.

On the other hand the US has since been investing in research on methods by which computer hard drives are ersed quickly. US Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology working with L-3 Communications Corp. have developed an old basic technique for quickly erasing hard-disk drives. The technique is said to be involving the bombardment of negative and positive charges the surface of the platters at random intervals in order to delete any magnetic data on the magnetic media.

Meanwhile, the Chinese are sparing no efforts to pioneer the hardware technology after realising the strategic importance of this technology both in the commercial and military industry.