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Benchmark of Atola Insight Forensic

We have made a few speed tests to compare the new Atola Insight Forensic with the Atola Insight. Here are the results: SSD tests All numeric table values represent speed of operations in MB/s. Atola Insight Forensic 4.0 Atola Insight 3.2 Disk imaging 391 190 Disk imaging with MD5 385 160 Disk imaging with SHA-1 312 87 MD5 calculation 371 170 SHA-1 calculation 312 90 Comparison with pattern 374 200 Disk wiping 447 235 The tests were executed on this couple of Samsung 840 PRO drives. HDD tests All numeric table values represent maximal speed of operations in MB/s. Atola Insight Forensic 4.0 Atola Insight 3.2 Disk imaging 201 190 Read more…

By Vitaliy Mokosiy, ago
Atola Insight Forensic

Atola Insight Forensic is coming out in April

We’re announcing a new product – Atola Insight Forensic, an unmatched data acquisition tool for forensic experts as well as data recovery labs. It will be officially released in the middle of April, and will supersede all of our current products. What’s new We’ve made a number of significant improvements in the hardware as well as the software. Here are a few of them: New hardware unit images drives and SSDs faster than any other tool ever existed Supports USB devices (USB 3.0 speed) Supports imaging to multiple targets Ability to run multiple concurrent tasks (Click the image for full-size view) Here is the explanation on what is going on Read more…

By Vitaliy Mokosiy, ago
Atola Insight Forensic

New DiskSense Unit. Technical specifications

    Our new DiskSense Forensic unit is much more powerful and versatile than our previous DiskSense Ethernet. At the same time the unit is lightweight and small enough to fit into any bag. Check out its technical specifications: Dimensions: 7.7 x 7.2 x 2.1 in (196 x 182 x 54 mm) Weight: 2.9 lb (1.3 kg) Source ports: SATA 3.0, USB 3.0, IDE Write protection switch for source ports 6 Target ports: 3 SATA 3 USB 3.0 (SuperSpeed) Serial RS232 port Operation LEDs for all ports and a buzzer Two ethernet interfaces: RJ45 / 1Gbe Internal CPU: Intel Core @ 2.8 GHz Internal OS: Linux running a custom kernel Read more…

By Vitaliy Mokosiy, ago
Atola Insight Forensic

Atola Insight Forensic. Sales started!

Today Atola Insight Forensic has become available for ordering. It’s our brand new system for smart data recovery from damaged drives. We have been working hard to create such a fast and efficient tool for forensic experts and data recovery labs. What’s new Key features of Atola Insight Forensic: New small and powerful DiskSense unit with 9 ports (4xSATA 3.0, 4xUSB 3.0, 1xIDE). See the technical specification. Extremely fast imaging and other operations with speeds of up to 450 MB/s. See the benchmark of Atola Insight Forensic. Support of USB hard drives and any USB flash devices. USB card reader support. Ability to run multiple concurrent tasks over different hard Read more…

By Vitaliy Mokosiy, ago
Atola insight

Atola Insight 3.2 released

We have just released a software update for Atola Insight and it is available for immediate download. More than 150 features and bug fixes were implemented in Atola Insight 3.2. We would like to introduce new key features right now. Password recovery for modern Seagate and WD drives We implemented smart internal algorithms for all modern WD drives. Automatic password removal for F3 Seagate HDDs is now supported. Head map support for Seagates with physical sector size of 4K Selective head-by-head imaging and diagnostics for all Seagate drives with 4KB physical sector size was added to Insight 3.2. Transferring cases between PCs With Insight 3.2, you can export entire case Read more…

By Vitaliy Mokosiy, ago
Business

We are going to PFIC in Salt Lake City

Atola Technology is going to PFIC in Salt Lake City. Visit our booth #16 at Paraben’s Forensic Innovations Conference in Salt Lake City, November 13 and 14th. This annual educational conference showcases the latest technical advances being made in the fields of Law, Forensics and eDiscovery. Come and get a personal demonstration of Atola’s next generation of forensic data recovery software and hardware innovations or simply come to ask questions of Atola’s C.E.O. and world-leading expert in forensic data recovery and hard drive engineering, Dmitry Postrigan.

By Vitaliy Mokosiy, ago
Atola Disk Recycler

Atola Disk Recycler 1.8.4 released

We have just released a software update for our Atola Disk Recycler product. The update is available for download: https://recycler.atola.com/download.html Change log New features: Added option for audio notifications when script finishes Added option asking for disk model and serial if it doesn’t get ready New Duplicate script button in Script Editor New script command Contains to analyse string values SetExtendedResult command supports color codes (ex. #AAFFAA) and influences port color Ability to change custom data folder path via Settings Recycler doesn’t require Windows administrator privileges anymore Sanitization Report for DOD wipe”, “NIST Erase”, “NIST Erase plus Verify” scripts added “Sanitization Report” template added Bugfixes: Improved script parsing and error Read more…

By Vitaliy Mokosiy, ago
Atola insight

Meet Atola Insight 3.1

Atola Insight 3.1 has been released with more than 70 changes. We built up many new awesome features based on revolutionary UI update in 3.0 version. Imaging: Target HEX Viewer The real time viewer of imaged data! It shows all bytes already written to a target drive during imaging. There are two modes available: Automatic with refresh interval slider Manual by means of Read sector button Improvements in Case Management We have significantly improved reporting in the Insight and we made sure everything is now being logged in finest detail. For example, each flip of the Write Protection switch on the DiskSense unit is now logged. All or only selected Read more…

By Vitaliy Mokosiy, ago
Business

Interview with David Foster, Memofix

We prepared the interview with one of our customers David Foster, General Manager of Memofix. Memofix is a Canadian market leader in data recovery and hard disk repair. Please tell me about your company and your current role? Memofix has been focused on computer storage devices since first being formed in 1986 to provide warranty service repairs for Seagate hard drives in Canada. So fixing hard drives really is in our blood. My  role at Memofix is 100% centered around our data recovery services. I am tasked with developing our capabilities and processes, as well as managing our day to day operations. As a small company, my role touches on all Read more…

By Vitaliy Mokosiy, ago