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Atola Insight Forensic 4.5 release

Atola Insight Forensic 4.5 is released! We put a great deal of effort on implementing the new imaging engine to improve image acquisition stability and performance at the same time. There are quite many changes to other parts of the product as well. In total, our internal issue tracking system has a record number of almost 250 tasks completed for 4.5 release. Full Atola Insight Forensic 4.5 change log is available here: Version Log. Improved performance Atola Insight 4.5 benchmarks show speed-up of core disk operations (all numbers are MB/s): Atola Insight Forensic 4.5 Atola Insight Forensic 4.4 Imaging to SATA target 500 418 Imaging to raw image file (1Gb Read more…

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Imaging speed improvements preannounced in Atola Insight Forensic 4.5

We would like to share the newest speed achieved by the revamped Imaging engine. It will be shipped within 4.5 software update in May. Total imaging performance was significantly improved during last 4 months. Just take a look at 503MB/s imaging speed in the screenshot below. It is more than 30 GB per minute.   The new imaging engine empowers you to clone 256GB Samsung 850 Pro just in 8.5 minutes!

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Atola Insight 4.4: 10Gbit Ethernet, SAS, M.2 extensions

Atola Insight Forensic 4.4 is ready for download now! The newest version got 3 new extension modules supported, 130+ improvements and bug fixes. In particular, we have been working really hard on the major new features addressed below. Full Atola Insight Forensic 4.4 change log is available here: Changelog. SAS extension module SAS extension module was designed to diagnose SAS drives and acquire images from them. It is really easy in use. As any other extension module, it should be plugged in the Extension port located on the DiskSense unit. Then you connect a SAS drive to it and simply start working. Atola Insight Forensic 4.4 supports damaged SAS drives, Read more…

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How to resolve DiskSense / HASP connection issues

DiskSense hardware system includes an internal HASP USB dongle. It contains unique activation and subscription information. Having more than one DiskSense system in your network may result in HASP-related conflicts. These conflicts usually manifest as “Too many connections” or “Cannot located DiskSense unit” errors. The issue is caused by behavior of the HASP discovery system which by default picks a random HASP dongle on the network. In other words, one Atola Insight Forensic instance may establish the connection with one DiskSense system, however it will “use” the HASP dongle of another (random) system available on the network. How to resolve multiple HASP connection issues We would like to share the Read more…

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Atola Insight Forensic 4.3 with Apple SSD support

We thank you all for supporting our product and proudly present Atola Insight Forensic 4.3 release. Record 170 fixes and improvements included in the new version. So hurry up to update your software! Several major changes we want to focus your attention on are described below. The full list of Atola Insight Forensic 4.3 changes can be found here: Atola Insight Forensic Changelog. Apple PCIe SSD support Insight 4.3 is the first version that is able to work with the newest PCIe SSDs from Apple MacBooks (2013 – current models). It can be made via new Atola adapter pluggable in the Extension port which is located on the DiskSense unit’s side Read more…

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Atola Disk Recycler 2.0 with SAS support

We are introducing the new Atola Disk Recycler with full support for SAS drives. This release contains over 40 improvements and bug fixes. Taking into consideration key features only, see how Recycler 2.0 is compared against the previous 1.8 version. Atola Disk Recycler 2.0 Atola Disk Recycler 1.8 SATA drives Yes Yes SAS drives Yes No High-performance report search Yes No SAS support We have created a new hardware system which has 4 ports with full support for both SAS and SATA drives. New SAS and previous-generation SATA systems can be linked into a single network, both types will be properly recognized by the software. We added support of some Read more…

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Atola Insight Forensic 4.2 released

Atola Insight Forensic 4.2 with support of image files on target media and greatly improved performance has been released. The new version includes over 120 fixes and improvements. The most valuable changes are addressed below. Full Atola Insight Forensic 4.2 change log is available here: Atola Insight Forensic Changelog. World’s fastest forensic imager Insight Forensic 4.2 got a great speed-up for imaging and other operations even being run on weak laptops. See our latest benchmark published in the blog. Image files on target devices Image files can now be created on exFat-formatted Target hard drives. The specific exFat-formatting with large cluster size is necessary for receiving good performance during imaging process. Read more…

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Benchmark of the upcoming Atola Insight Forensic 4.2

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 Read more…

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Atola Insight Forensic 4.1

Today we have released Atola Insight Forensic 4.1. Our main efforts were put on bug fixing to make Atola Insight Forensic more stable and reliable, and version 4.1 includes over 100 fixes and improvements. The most significant changes are addressed below. Full Atola Insight Forensic 4.1 change log is available here: Atola Insight Changelog. Imaging: new Metadata-only option New Metadata-only imaging mode allows copying of absolutely minimum amount of data for file browsing to work, this allows for imaging of specific files. Creating imaging sessions from File Recovery It is now possible to create an imaging session that would include sectors of specific files. It works perfect together with the Read more…