New features in Atola Insight 1.5

November 15th, 2010 atola insight Vitaliy Mokosiy no comments

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 reverse) individually for each pass.

Other features added to imager

It is now possible to completely disable writing to target disk on read error. Also, it is now possible to reset all settings to defaults:

Jump to another area with a single click

You can now simply hover the mouse over the progress map to see which LBA corresponds to the specific spot:

Now the sweet part: you can click anywhere on the progress map and Atola Insight will re-start imaging from that specific spot right away:

By-head imaging: WD drives

We’ve added the possibility to image WD drives by select heads in addition to Seagate drives. This gives you the ability to completely “disable” or “exclude” certain heads from the imaging process, thus avoiding read operations from damaged head or surface.

In the example below we’ve plugged a 2TB WD drive and disabled certain heads:

During the imaging you can see what head is being used at the moment (different head areas are highlighted with different color). If in doubt, you can peek into the Legend anytime.

File recovery engine: ext2/3/4

Until this release, the file recovery engine only supported FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS file systems. We have added support for Ext2, ext3 и ext4 to Atola Insight v1.5.

Here’s an example of a hard drive with a single ext4 partition:

When we open that partition, we can recover specific files just like on any FAT or NTFS partition:

In this version you can also select file system encoding:

File recovery report was also improved:

There are even more changes to Atola Insight 1.5. You can see full list of changes in our changelog: Atola Insight Changelog.

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New Atola Insight video tutorials

October 20th, 2010 atola insight Vitaliy Mokosiy no comments

We are glad to introduce you several new video tutorials about Atola Insight 1.5 that is going to be released soon:

Imaging to disk

Imaging to file

File recovery

Automatic checkup

Oscilloscope

Imaging speed record by Atola Insight

March 12th, 2010 atola insight Vitaliy Mokosiy no comments

The next Atola Insight release (1.4.5 version) will have better imaging performance. Record speed of 106 MB/s was achieved using modern WD (WD5000AAKS-00V1A0) and Seagate (STM31000528AS) disks:

Interesting that speed decreased only to 101 MB/s after 76% of data was imaged:

Atola.com renewed!

November 18th, 2009 atola.com Vitaliy Mokosiy no comments

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 for you:

DiskSense Gigabit Ethernet

November 2nd, 2009 atola insight Dmitry Postrigan no comments

First batch of our new DiskSense units has been shipped to Ji2, our worldwide distributor. Main advantages over the USB unit are the ability to image data directly onto another hard drive, and create images over Gigabit Etherent link.

In our latest Atola Insight release (v1.4.1), we’ve reached imaging speed of about 85MB/second (5GB/min) on a pair of Seagate 7200.11 hard drives. And we are continuing to work to reach even greater speed!

I’ve just took some pictures of the new unit:

Also, we have released an imager-only edition of the Atola Insight which is basically same setup (software + DiskSense unit), but it does not have hard drive diagnostics, firmware access, ATA password removal and other things, just bare imaging functionality (disk-to-disk and disk-to-image). What’s good about it is its price and the fact that you can upgrade to the full Atola Insight at any time.