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.
Benchmark screenshots
Disk imaging
MD5 hashing
Comparison with pattern
Disk wiping
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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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.
