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Atola Bandura is one of the best solutions for the data recovery market as it is a powerful imager, wiper and tester for professional use. Every new release means fresh and well thought-out improvements, and incredible opportunities. What’s new in Bandura 2.0? Here are the latest firmware changes: Speed of imaging, wiping, and repairing increased up to 30%; More strong support of SSD disks attached to Target port; Correct DCO and HPA processing for disks larger than 2 TB; New complete icons on buttons. Atola Bandura 2.0 hardware unit has the following improvements: More physical security to SATA- ports; New touchscreen with a strong resistance to ESD; Renewed hardware platform Read more…

Atola Bandura contains many erasing algorithms including DoD 5220.22-M, NIST 800-88, Security Erase, Fill with Pattern/LBA. All of them can be used for simultaneous wiping of 2 disk added to firmware version 1.1.5 as a new feature. New Disks to use setting allows to select one of two variants: – Source & Target (new!) – Target Selecting Source & Target, you will be able to improve Bandura performance twice in case if you need to wipe several or many disks. This option helps to start erasing 2 disks simultaneously. It’s also important to understand that it somewhat breaks Bandura concept of write-protected source disk. Therefore an additional confirmative question will Read more…

Today we would like to present another new function in Atola Bandura 1.1.5 release. The Bandura automatically repairs “soft” bad sectors (sectors with damaged ECC fields) using a fast and efficient remapping process. When the Bad Sector Repair function is selected, the Bandura reads the source disk block-by-block. If a read error occurs, it checks every sector in that block and remaps all bad sectors. All remapped sectors are displayed on the LCD panel in real time. Results screen of repairing bad sectors Bad Sector Repair log Timeout settings for Repair Please note: all product features are listed in Bandura specifications.