{"id":1076,"date":"2016-05-17T15:23:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T13:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.atola.com\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2022-12-19T14:57:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T12:57:58","slug":"atola-insight-forensic-4-5-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atola.com\/blog\/atola-insight-forensic-4-5-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Atola Insight Forensic 4.5 release"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atola Insight Forensic 4.5 is released!<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Full Atola Insight Forensic 4.5 change log is available here: Version Log<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Improved performance<\/h3>\n

Atola Insight 4.5 benchmarks show speed-up of core disk operations (all numbers are MB\/s):<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Atola Insight Forensic 4.5<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/th>\n

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Atola Insight Forensic 4.4<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n

Imaging to SATA target<\/td>\n500<\/td>\n\n

418<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Imaging to raw image file (1Gb network)<\/td>\n120<\/td>\n\n

110<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Imaging to E01 file with\u00a0MD5 and SHA1 (1Gb network)<\/td>\n\n

118<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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85<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Imaging to compressed E01 file<\/td>\n\n

57<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

MD5 calculation<\/td>\n\n

482<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\u00a0449<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The tests were performed using two drives of the following model: Samsung SSD 850 PRO 256GB EXM02B6Q.<\/p>\n

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New features in Imaging<\/h3>\n

The revamped Imaging engine introduces some smart and beautiful features. For example, it will now automatically clear ATA password and HPA on-the-fly after power cycle if they were temporarily removed (only temporary removal is supported for write protected source media).<\/p>\n

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Imaging progress bar is included in every resulting case report to visualize cloned data.<\/p>\n

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There is a new imaging setting “Stop hashing on first error”.\u00a0 It calculates and stores a correct hash for all sectors preceding the first read error on an evidence drive.<\/p>\n

\"Stop<\/a><\/p>\n

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We improved logging verbosity during imaging. You can see the most noticeable change when ‘All sectors with data\/metadata’ is selected. In that case the imaging log will contain information about found partitions.<\/p>\n

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Last but not least, Atola’s new media map manager offers better\u00a0user experience to select custom partitions and ranges for imaging.<\/p>\n

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New preferences<\/h3>\n

There are two new options in Miscellaneous tab that need to be explained:<\/p>\n