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Wiping 2 disks simultaneously in Bandura

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…

By Vitaliy Mokosiy, ago
Atola Bandura

HPA and DCO max address management

The Bandura (since firmware version 1.1.5) enables users to easily manage the HPA (Host Protected Area) and DCO (Device Configuration Overlay) settings in order to set the max address of a hard drive. The three below functions can be executed quickly and easily. 1. Set HPA address Establish HPA address restriction. After function is executed, the ID sector will display any address set by the user (example: 500GB hard drive may be reduced to 250GB). 2. Restore DCO Restores all factory settings of disk. If a max LBA address restriction is set, it will be removed and the ID sector will use the hard drive’s native max address. 3. Restore Read more…

By Vitaliy Mokosiy, ago
Atola Bandura

Bad Sector Repair in Atola Bandura

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.

By Vitaliy Mokosiy, ago
Atola Bandura

Checksum Calculation in Atola Bandura

Today we would like to present one of our new forensic functions in Atola Bandura 1.1.5 release. Our new checksum (hash) function executes fast and accurate checksum calculations on both the source and target hard drives at once. Checksum calculation is a valuable feature to have on an imager, and being able to calculate both checksums simultaneously at high speed is a great time-saver. Checksum calculations (HDD hash values) are automatically saved to the attached USB flash stick after operation. Various algorithms are available to meet different procedural (forensic) standards. Supported checksum algorithms: MD5, SHA1, SHA224, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512. Checksum calculation in progress Checksum results Calculated MD5 checksum for source Read more…

By Vitaliy Mokosiy, ago
Atola Bandura

Introducing Atola Bandura

Today I am glad to introduce our new product: Atola Bandura – the best disk duplicator in the world. Bandura is a brand-new standalone 2-port disk duplication and diagnosis tool. Bandura allows fast disk duplication (it can duplicate damaged or unstable drives), automatic checkup, comparison, and secure data erasure. It does not require a PC; the only thing it needs is a 100–240V AC power socket. More information can be found on the Atola Bandura page. We also made a short video, to show how easy it is to start disk duplication process using Bandura:  

By Dmitry Postrigan, ago
Atola insight

Atola Insight 2.0

We are proud to announce the release of Atola Insight 2.0, the latest version of our data recovery suite. Below is a short list of highlights from the new release. Please view our change log for a complete list of changes. HFS/HFS+ support Atola Insight now completely supports Apple Mac OS / Mac OS X file systems: HFS and HFS+, which enables it to perform the following tasks. Data-Only Copy: Image only occupied sectors from disks running these file systems File Recovery Capability: Browse these file systems in File Recovery mode and recover files from them Support for GPT (Guide Partition Table) has also been added. GPT is popular in Read more…

By Dmitry Postrigan, ago
Atola insight

New features in Atola Insight 1.5

We’ve just released Atola Insight v1.5. There are several improvements I’d like to tell about. Imaging This feature of Atola Insight is used the most, and with this release we introduce some major changes to this part of the software. Ext2/3/4 support We’ve added support for Linux file systems. From now on, the option to copy only sectors with data will also work for ext2, ext3, and ext4 partitions in addition to NTFS and FAT. Pass editor In this version of Atola Insight we’ve completely reworked pass editor, which is now much easier to use than previous one: The new pass editor also allows to specify imaging direction (linear or Read more…

By Vitaliy Mokosiy, ago
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Atola.com renewed!

New design Finally, design of Atola.com was renewed into new modern one. Our main idea was easing access to information about Atola products. Hope you like it: New product The site content was updated together with design renewal. One of the most important changes is addition of our new product – Atola Imager. You may apprehend it as imaging-only edition of Atola Insight. We think it’s a quite cheap and high speed solution for disk duplication: More information We added and changed information in different sections of Atola.com. One of the most noticeable changes is a matrix comparison that may help in making decision what DiskSense unit is more suitable Read more…

By Vitaliy Mokosiy, ago