Supported Drives

Atola TaskForce 2 supports all 1.8-inch, 2.5-inch, 3.5-inch IDE, SATA, SAS and USB hard drives, USB Flash media as well as SD, Compactflash, and Memory Stick cards via a generic USB Card Reader. Its four ports for NVMe SSDs support the following form factors: M.2, U.2, U.3.

TaskForce 2 can also work with the following drive types using proprietary Atola extension modules:

Most functions of Atola TaskForce 2 will work with any hard drive or flash card with either IDE, SATA-1/2/3 or USB-1/2/3 interface (including those attached via adapters).

To ensure high quality and efficiency of our tools, we test them on hundreds of storage devices.

Remote devices

Remote image acquisition is available via the iSCSI protocol. The recommended way to expose drives on a remote PC or server is the free Atola Boot Image: boot the machine from USB, and its internal drives are write-protected and shared as iSCSI targets automatically.

Compatibility for remote devices is determined by the remote computer, not by a fixed list of drive models:

For custom Linux environments, you can also use the standalone iscsi-targets script.

Head selection works for the following HDD models

RAID support: unknown configuration detection, reassembly, and imaging