Multitasking in Atola Insight Forensic

With each passing year, speed becomes a yet bigger issue for forensic specialists: while the capacity of hard drives grows exponentially, their speed does not keep up. A common 4TB drive's speed constitutes up to 200 MB/s or 12 GB/min, which translates to more than 5 hours of imaging. And it may take prohibitive amounts of time to image a drive with damaged zones. Therefore, the ability to simultaneously run different operations on several devices is more vital than ever.

To provide users with greater productivity, Atola Insight Forensic's high-capacity multi-core CPU supports up to 15 concurrent tasks, that can be assigned to different drives or image files.

You can start Imaging process from a Source drive to one or multiple Target drives and/or image files. Then you can click on the Plus icon and open another target drive to start another operation.

How to add more device operations

For example, you can launch Fill/Erase on this Target drive to get it ready for the next imaging session:

Additional wiping task being executed in parallel

It is also possible to Calculate Hash on yet another Target drive:

Hash calculation being executed in parallel

Other long-running operations you can perform simultaneously include:

• Automatic Checkup
• Artifact Finder
• Locate Sectors
• Verifying Segmented Hashes
• Scripting (e.g. search files, files types, words, phrases or patterns, specific information type like email address, telephone, address, GPS coordinates etc.)
• Comparing data on drive with a pattern
• Media Scan