Atola forensic imagers work with both good and damaged hard drives.
How to spend less time clearing the backlog? And which forensic file format to use for the maximum acquisition speed? Those questions are not easy to answer. But OK, challenge accepted! Let’s measure and find out! If you’re into spoilers, jump to the “Final Results” part. If not, read on. Read more…
On Tuesday, June 16 Atola’s Yulia Samoteykina spoke at Interpol’s annual Digital Forensics Expert Group. After the presentation about our imagers’ multi-pass imaging system and other damaged media functionality, we received a few follow-up questions. In this blog we would like to reiterate the answers to these questions: Can Atola Read more…
Recent article about QA process for our devices on LinkedIn blog: The secret of making Atola forensic imagers life-ready Today we are offering you a sneak peek into Atola Technology office to show you our device storage system. As you know, both Atola TaskForce and Atola Insight Forensic support the Read more…
Hard drives are built in a way so that they never return unreliable data. This means that if the hard drive cannot guarantee 100% accuracy of the data requested, it will simply return an error and will never give away any data at all. Understanding Bad Sectors General causes for Read more…
On September 15th, we have released a new version of Atola Insight Beta. I would like to elaborate on a new feature that we’ve added in this update. We call it Media Map. Media Map The process of copying data from the source drive is very important in data Read more…
This is something new to the data recovery software/equipment industry, so I have a feeling that it needs to be explained. Basically, case management allows tracking everything that is being done to a particular hard drive. I will give a couple real world examples: More than one person works on Read more…
We receive this question again and again: what hard drives (model numbers) are supported by Atola Insight? I completely realize the importance of this question, but unfortunately, there is no simple answer. When we were designing Atola Insight, we’ve faced a dilemma: whether we add support for new hard drives Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Booth number: 73539 (Look for YEC booth and ask for Dmitry Postrigan) in the Sands Convention Center. By the way, YEC Read more…
We’ve got it working today. There will be two kinds of current monitors in Atola Insight: full-sized monitor and tiny monitor. Tiny monitor can stay on the screen allowing to always keep an eye on hard drive’s power consumption. Current Monitor (click to see in full size) The image above Read more…