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Atola Disk Recycler 2.0 with SAS support

We are introducing the new Atola Disk Recycler with full support for SAS drives. This release contains over 40 improvements and bug fixes. Taking into consideration key features only, see how Recycler 2.0 is compared against the previous 1.8 version. Atola Disk Recycler 2.0 Atola Disk Recycler 1.8 SATA drives Yes Yes SAS drives Yes No High-performance report search Yes No SAS support We have created a new hardware system which has 4 ports with full support for both SAS and SATA drives. New SAS and previous-generation SATA systems can be linked into a single network, both types will be properly recognized by the software. We added support of some Read more…

By Vitaliy Mokosiy, ago
Atola Insight Forensic

Atola Insight Forensic 4.2 released

Atola Insight Forensic 4.2 with support of image files on target media and greatly improved performance has been released. The new version includes over 120 fixes and improvements. The most valuable changes are addressed below. Full Atola Insight Forensic 4.2 change log is available here: Atola Insight Forensic Changelog. World’s fastest forensic imager Insight Forensic 4.2 got a great speed-up for imaging and other operations even being run on weak laptops. See our latest benchmark published in the blog. Image files on target devices Image files can now be created on exFat-formatted Target hard drives. The specific exFat-formatting with large cluster size is necessary for receiving good performance during imaging process. Read more…

By Vitaliy Mokosiy, ago
Atola Insight Forensic

Benchmark of the upcoming Atola Insight Forensic 4.2

In modern world hard drives are getting bigger and bigger. Amounts of data stored grow every day and demand more efforts from forensic experts. Thus, the performance of the data acquisition process becomes more and more critical. One of the major improvements in the upcoming 4.2 release is a significant speed-up of core disk operations: Imaging Hashing Comparison Wiping Here are the latest benchmark results: Atola Insight Forensic 4.2 Atola Insight Forensic 4.1/4.0 Disk imaging 418 391 Disk imaging with MD5 418 385 Disk imaging with SHA-1 312 312 MD5 calculation  449 371 SHA-1 calculation 312 312 Comparison with pattern 458 374 Disk wiping 470 447 Values represent Megabytes per Read more…

By Vitaliy Mokosiy, ago
Atola Insight Forensic

Atola Insight Forensic 4.1

Today we have released Atola Insight Forensic 4.1. Our main efforts were put on bug fixing to make Atola Insight Forensic more stable and reliable, and version 4.1 includes over 100 fixes and improvements. The most significant changes are addressed below. Full Atola Insight Forensic 4.1 change log is available here: Atola Insight Changelog. Imaging: new Metadata-only option New Metadata-only imaging mode allows copying of absolutely minimum amount of data for file browsing to work, this allows for imaging of specific files. Creating imaging sessions from File Recovery It is now possible to create an imaging session that would include sectors of specific files. It works perfect together with the Read more…

By Vitaliy Mokosiy, ago
Atola Insight Forensic

Pre-order Atola Insight Forensic

Today Atola Insight Forensic has become available for pre-ordering. Feel free to contact our Canadian sales office for a quote. Tel: 1 888 540 2010 1 416 833 3501 Business hours: 10am – 6pm ET Contact us via email Atola Insight Forensic consists of the DiskSense Forensic unit plus the software. Here are some photos of the unit: Front side Right side Left side Back

By Vitaliy Mokosiy, ago
Atola Insight Forensic

Benchmark of Atola Insight Forensic

We have made a few speed tests to compare the new Atola Insight Forensic with the Atola Insight. Here are the results: SSD tests All numeric table values represent speed of operations in MB/s. Atola Insight Forensic 4.0 Atola Insight 3.2 Disk imaging 391 190 Disk imaging with MD5 385 160 Disk imaging with SHA-1 312 87 MD5 calculation 371 170 SHA-1 calculation 312 90 Comparison with pattern 374 200 Disk wiping 447 235 The tests were executed on this couple of Samsung 840 PRO drives. HDD tests All numeric table values represent maximal speed of operations in MB/s. Atola Insight Forensic 4.0 Atola Insight 3.2 Disk imaging 201 190 Read more…

By Vitaliy Mokosiy, ago
Atola Insight Forensic

Atola Insight Forensic is coming out in April

We’re announcing a new product – Atola Insight Forensic, an unmatched data acquisition tool for forensic experts as well as data recovery labs. It will be officially released in the middle of April, and will supersede all of our current products. What’s new We’ve made a number of significant improvements in the hardware as well as the software. Here are a few of them: New hardware unit images drives and SSDs faster than any other tool ever existed Supports USB devices (USB 3.0 speed) Supports imaging to multiple targets Ability to run multiple concurrent tasks (Click the image for full-size view) Here is the explanation on what is going on Read more…

By Vitaliy Mokosiy, ago
Atola Insight Forensic

New DiskSense Unit. Technical specifications

    Our new DiskSense Forensic unit is much more powerful and versatile than our previous DiskSense Ethernet. At the same time the unit is lightweight and small enough to fit into any bag. Check out its technical specifications: Dimensions: 7.7 x 7.2 x 2.1 in (196 x 182 x 54 mm) Weight: 2.9 lb (1.3 kg) Source ports: SATA 3.0, USB 3.0, IDE Write protection switch for source ports 6 Target ports: 3 SATA 3 USB 3.0 (SuperSpeed) Serial RS232 port Operation LEDs for all ports and a buzzer Two ethernet interfaces: RJ45 / 1Gbe Internal CPU: Intel Core @ 2.8 GHz Internal OS: Linux running a custom kernel Read more…

By Vitaliy Mokosiy, ago