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 second (MB/s).

The tests were performed on this couple of Samsung 840 PRO drives.

Atola Insight Forensic Benchmark SSD Drives

Benchmark screenshots

Disk imaging

Insight 4.2 Imaging Speed

 

MD5 hashing

Insight 4.2 Hashing Speed

 

Comparison with pattern

Insight 4.2 Comparison Speed

 

Disk wiping

Insight 4.2 Wiping Speed

Vitaliy Mokosiy

Vitaliy Mokosiy

Atola CTO He believes in saving time & energy of people doing mission-critical work. Therefore, all his efforts are focused on leading R&D of innovative Atola products. Gamification enthusiast. Agile development proponent.

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