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February 21st, 2008 atola insight Dmitry Postrigan 2 comments

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Update on Atola Insight

January 30th, 2008 atola insight Dmitry Postrigan 9 comments

We had a fully working Atola Insight software together with Atola DiskSense unit on the show, so anyone could see it in action and even try it. I am very proud that we had no program crashes and no hardware failures during the expo, thanks to Fedir, Andrey and Alexander — our top-notch developers.

It was pleasure to meet our potential customers on the show and at the seminar and I’d like to thank everyone who attended. I’ve learned a lot while listening to the feedback, and we have already made changes to our current road map according to the feedback.

Last couple of weeks my email was literally flooded with questions and now I’d like to provide the answers to the most frequent ones.

What is the price?
Preliminary price for the Atola Insight suite (includes Atola Insight software and Atola DiskSense UDMA USB 2.0 unit) is $5990. We still haven’t decided whether we will offer less expensive versions or not.

Release date
First official release is planned for the mid-April 2008. Shipping will begin in June 2008.

Where to buy
YEC International will distribute and support Atola Insight. YEC has a wide network of distributors and partners around the world.

Answering questions about Atola Insight

December 28th, 2007 atola insight Dmitry Postrigan 2 comments

It’s been two days since we announced Atola Insight, and we are already virtually flooded with questions and feedback about it.

I will now go through the most common questions:

Pricing: It will be a stand-alone product with a set price; no per-use charge as seen in Repair Station/HDD Unlock Wizard. Sorry, no prices are set so far. Preliminary pricing information can be expected in February 2008. Full roadmap (2-year development plan) will be released in March 2008.

Presentation at CES 2008: I will do my best to have it taped. If that doesn’t happen for any reason, then I will at least publish my powerpoint presentation (EDIT: see comments for the download link). Also, please note that http://atola.com always contains up-to-date information about the project.

Freeware: We really want to give something that can be useful for everyone. Initially we did plan to include all diagnostics features in the freeware version of Atola Insight, but now this seems somewhat shaky since most of the diagnostic stuff moved to the Atola DiskSense USB unit. We will be discussing this more with the developers to see what we can do. The same applies to the firmware diagnostics.

Supported drives and features: Automatic unlocking (ATA-password removal) will be available for all IDE and SATA hard drives (laptop and desktop) by May 2008. Everything else will be in the product roadmap which we will be releasing in March.

Firmware recovery with Atola Insight

December 27th, 2007 atola insight, data recovery, hard drives Dmitry Postrigan 3 comments

I am happy to provide everyone with the a new screenshot that we’ve got today: Accessing firmware files (system area modules):

Manual firmware recovery: downloading firmware

This is an old-fashion way of accessing firmware files (modules): you can perform the recovery yourself. But wait, Atola Insight can do much more than that. It can automatically repair most kinds of firmware damage for you; all you have to do is to click a single button.

Automatic firmware recovery in progress

In automatic mode, the program first creates full firmware backup, diagnoses the problem, and then takes all necessary steps to recover the drive. Automatic mode saves tremendous amount of time since most firmware issues can be recovered automatically.

Atola Insight at CES 2008

December 22nd, 2007 atola insight, business, data recovery, hard drives Dmitry Postrigan 3 comments

If you want to see Atola Insight in action, then you are welcome to visit us at CES 2008.

Project presentation at CES 2008 (January 7-10) in Las Vegas
Floor plan of the show | booth number: 73539 (Look for YEC booth and ask for Dmitry Postrigan) in the Sands Convention Center.

By the way, YEC also presents Shinobi, an HDD Unlocking tool powered by Atola Unlocker module. They also have all kinds of HDD duplicators. You have an opportunity to see all hi-tech HDD tools in one place, so do not miss the chance!