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[Update 2021] Atola Battery is discontinued. Today we are introducing our new product – Atola Battery. The forensic world has been becoming more and more mobile. This is the reason why our team decided to come up with our first battery solution. It will help make your life less dependent on the availability of an electrical network when using Atola Insight Forensic. There are two main forensic use cases we see and want to emphasize. Start image acquisition even when there is no electrical power. Protect working DiskSense unit from power loss. Technical specifications Work time: 3 hours 30 minutes, when imaging source HDD to target HDD with MD5 calculation Read more…

Atola Insight Forensic enables working with remote database shared between many users. Here is the scenario how to setup such a network database and connect different PCs with Atola Insight to it. 1. Pre-install SQL Server 2012 or 2014 on the network server PC 2. Launch Atola Insight Forensic on the user PC 3. Navigate to Insight -> Database Connection Settings from the top menu A. Select Server type: Remote B. Specify network server name, select SQL server instance and database names C. Enter SQL server login and password as shown in the picture below: 4. Click OK and re-launch Atola Insight Forensic on the user PC. 5. It will Read more…

Atola Insight Forensic 4.5 is released! We put a great deal of effort on implementing the new imaging engine to improve image acquisition stability and performance at the same time. There are quite many changes to other parts of the product as well. In total, our internal issue tracking system has a record number of almost 250 tasks completed for 4.5 release. Full Atola Insight Forensic 4.5 change log is available here: Version Log. Improved performance Atola Insight 4.5 benchmarks show speed-up of core disk operations (all numbers are MB/s): Atola Insight Forensic 4.5 Atola Insight Forensic 4.4 Imaging to SATA target 500 418 Imaging to raw image file (1Gb Read more…

Atola Insight Forensic 4.4 is ready for download now! The newest version got 3 new extension modules supported, 130+ improvements and bug fixes. In particular, we have been working really hard on the major new features addressed below. Full Atola Insight Forensic 4.4 change log is available here: Changelog. SAS extension module SAS extension module was designed to diagnose SAS drives and acquire images from them. It is really easy in use. As any other extension module, it should be plugged in the Extension port located on the DiskSense unit. Then you connect a SAS drive to it and simply start working. Atola Insight Forensic 4.4 supports damaged SAS drives, Read more…

We thank you all for supporting our product and proudly present Atola Insight Forensic 4.3 release. Record 170 fixes and improvements included in the new version. So hurry up to update your software! Several major changes we want to focus your attention on are described below. The full list of Atola Insight Forensic 4.3 changes can be found here: Atola Insight Forensic Changelog. Apple PCIe SSD support Insight 4.3 is the first version that is able to work with the newest PCIe SSDs from Apple MacBooks (2013 – current models). It can be made via new Atola adapter pluggable in the Extension port which is located on the DiskSense unit’s side Read more…