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Being able to evaluate the drive’s state before it has exhausted its resources can make all the difference between a case won or a case lost in a court of law. SMART table is a valuable source of information about a hard drive’s health. SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) provides stats of a drive’s operation, thus helping predict its future failure. Making a definitive conclusion based on the indices in SMART table is not easy: not all parameters are critical, it is usually a combination of bad values of a few parameters that point to a trouble, time factor plays a role too (how fast has the state of Read more…

We are pleased to inform you that we have a bunch of Thunderbolt extension modules in stock that are ready to be shipped. The first extension modules are already on their way to the early birds who have placed their orders before they became available. Thunderbolt extension module enables forensically sound imaging and other operations on all generations of MacBooks. Supported interfaces and functionality Thunderbolt extension enables Insight to work on all MacBooks with the following interfaces: FireWire Thunderbolt 2 Thunderbolt 3 (2016 – 2017 models) With the help of Thunderbolt extension module you can perform such operations: imaging hash calculation hash verification comparing media scan file recovery 2016 and 2017 generations Read more…

A situation may occur when multi-target imaging is paused to be continued later, but one or more targets become unavailable. The drive may need to be taken and used by another technician or broken, or the server with the image file may become unavailable. But you may need to finish the imaging to the remaining target asap to start working on the evidence. It is for such cases that we have added the splitting imaging sessions functionality to the 4.9 release of Atola Insight Forensic. With the source drive connected to Insight, go to Imaging category and view the details of the interrupted imaging session to several targets. If not Read more…

Insight’s case management system has been created to help users efficiently keep track of hard drive-related information. Even if a hard drive has already been used for a while, imaging and hashing have already been performed, it is still possible to open the case and make adjustments to its details. Click the Plus icon next to the Case Number in the top right corner. Now you can enter or change the Case Number and Description. To save your changes click OK button. You will see the description visible next to the Case History. For quick changes, you can also click Change link located right below the description. A little lower Read more…

We are delighted to announce the release of Atola Insight Forensic 4.9! With this release we introduce our new Thunderbolt extension module, which will enable forensically sound imaging and other operations on all generations of MacBooks. The full list of Atola Insight Forensic 4.9 changes can be found here: Atola Insight Forensic Changelog. Supported interfaces and functionality Thunderbolt extension enables Insight to work on all MacBooks with the following interfaces: FireWire Thunderbolt 2 Thunderbolt 3 (2016 – 2017 models) With the help of Thunderbolt extension module you can perform such operations: imaging hash calculation hash verification comparing media scan file recovery 2016 and 2017 generations of MacBooks have non-extractable SSD Read more…