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Erasing data on destination drives guarantees accuracy of the imaged data and helps verify that the drive has no errors. In the course, all sectors are overwritten with the help of selected pattern or method. When you need to prepare multiple hard drives for imaging, Insight’s multitasking capabilities enable you to do so much faster by launching Erase/Fill on multiple drives simultaneously, including those connected to the source port. To wipe the drive connected to the source port, remember to switch off write protection on the port so that the indicator above the switch is off and there is a notification right below the port bar saying Note: Write protection of Read more…

When Atola Insight Forensic performs Imaging, it approaches bad sectors in the most gentle yet thorough way with high overall speed. But most importantly, Insight is unbeatable at imaging severely damaged drives, while providing all the necessary tools for evidence verification and proper data storage formats. Insight’s ability to succeed even with the drives that freeze in the course of imaging makes it indispensable for forensic specialists. So why do damaged drives freeze? When a drive receives and runs a Read sectors command, and comes across a physically or logically damaged sector, the device is unable to return a good result. Therefore it goes into Retry mode, repeatedly attempting to retrieve data from the damaged area. However, often the drive is unable to read Read more…

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 Read more…

[Update 2025] Atola Technology keeps developing Atola Insight Forensic, forensic data recovery tool capable of Seagate password removal via COM port. If you are looking for a freeware solution from our company for drive management, check out MultiDrive: Easy 1-to-1 drive cloning Backup/restore your drives to/from RAW format or ZIP format on-the-fly Erase drives before selling or reusing them Run multiple clone, backup, erase tasks simultaneously (pause/resume tasks) CLI app included in addition to the UI app, so you can use it in your scripts or any preferred automation tool Zero hidden costs, no trial mode, and no usage limitations. Try it out at multidrive.io   If you need to Read more…