Bandura is a forensic standalone 2-port hard disk duplication and diagnosis tool. Bandura allows fast HDD duplication, automatic testing, comparison, and secure data wiping. It does not require a PC; the only thing it needs is a 100–240V AC power socket.
We are retiring Atola Bandura, our standalone high-speed disk duplicator. If you have one, please update to the latest firmware. Do not worry, we will still fully support your Bandura if you run into any issue. Why would we cancel such a great product? Bandura was the coolest disk duplicator Read more…
Atola Bandura is one of the best solutions for the data recovery market as it is a powerful imager, wiper and tester for professional use. Every new release means fresh and well thought-out improvements, and incredible opportunities. What’s new in Bandura 2.0? Here are the latest firmware changes: Speed of Read more…
Imaging is the main Atola Bandura feature. This is the reason why it has been unstoppably improved since the very first release. This time we added the new setting to the firmware update 1.1.5 allowing to apply Read Long command for reading bad sectors and getting some data from them Read more…
Atola Bandura contains many erasing algorithms including DoD 5220.22-M, NIST 800-88, Security Erase, Fill with Pattern/LBA. All of them can be used for simultaneous wiping of 2 disk added to firmware version 1.1.5 as a new feature. New Disks to use setting allows to select one of two variants: – Read more…
The Bandura (since firmware version 1.1.5) enables users to easily manage the HPA (Host Protected Area) and DCO (Device Configuration Overlay) settings in order to set the max address of a hard drive. The three below functions can be executed quickly and easily. 1. Set HPA address Establish HPA address Read more…
Today we would like to present another new function in Atola Bandura 1.1.5 release. The Bandura automatically repairs “soft” bad sectors (sectors with damaged ECC fields) using a fast and efficient remapping process. When the Bad Sector Repair function is selected, the Bandura reads the source disk block-by-block. If a Read more…
Today we would like to present one of our new forensic functions in Atola Bandura 1.1.5 release. Our new checksum (hash) function executes fast and accurate checksum calculations on both the source and target hard drives at once. Checksum calculation is a valuable feature to have on an imager, and Read more…