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Atola Bandura

We are shutting down Bandura

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 ever. We put a lot of effort into making it a great product, so it was hard for us to make this decision. One of the reasons why we are canceling Bandura is because when it comes to pure features, it is very similar to our flagship product, Atola Insight. Both products have the same features, which makes these products Read more…

By Dmitry Postrigan, ago
Atola Disk Recycler

Atola Disk Recycler 1.8 released

We have just released a software update for our Atola Disk Recycler product. It contains many bug fixes and several new features. You can find the full list of changes in the change log. The biggest feature of this release is the Grid View. It significantly simplifies management of many Disk Recycler units at once. If you happen to manage more than 10 units (40 ports), this feature can be much more efficient than Classic View.  

By Vitaliy Mokosiy, ago
Atola Disk Recycler

Bye-bye Windows XP and Vista

I would like to announce that we are dropping support for Windows XP and Vista for our products listed below: Atola Insight Atola Imager Atola Forensic Imager Atola Disk Recycler It was not an easy decision, but after weighing our options we are certain that this is the only way to ensure quality of our products in the future releases. Therefore, the upcoming software updates for the above mentioned products will not install on Windows XP or Vista anymore. Why? I know there are people who still have warm feelings about Windows XP, and I am one of them. However, recently we have found ourselves fixing quite a bit of Read more…

By Dmitry Postrigan, ago
Customer relations

Interview with Bobby Rose, Hollywood PC Repair

We would like to present the short interview with Bobby Rose, one of Atola customers. He provides DR services at Data Recovery Hollywood which is a subsidiary of Hollywood PC Repair.   Please tell me about your company and your current role? Hollywood PC Repair and Data Recovery provides flat fee data recovery services to the community in Hollywood, California.  The majority of our customers are lower income individuals who cannot afford expensive data recovery services. What is the most challenging aspect of your work? Breaking the news to customers in cases where their hard drive will require expensive clean-room recovery. How often do you use your Atola system(s) and Read more…

By Vitaliy Mokosiy, ago
Atola insight

Hurry and take an advantage of the newly released Atola Insight 3.0!

One of Atola’s most significant releases ever, Insight 3.0, has been launched already! You will be pleasantly surprised by its many improvements and the increased opportunities it offers. With Atola Insight 3.0 take advantage of even more capabilities! Just take a look at the considerable number of improvements created for Insight 3.0. You can find the full list of improvements on the change log. New interface for effective work with 2 HDD In general, the data recovery process deals with both a source disk and a target disk or an image file to make a sector-by-sector copy. Our new interface is specifically designed to ensure more efficient operations between source Read more…

By Vitaliy Mokosiy, ago
Atola insight

Bad Sector Recovery

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 bad sector formation are physical or magnetic corruption. Physical corruption is easy to understand – it occurs when there is physical damage done to the media surface. Magnetic corruption occurs when hard drive miswrites data to a wrong location. While the latter may seem to be less damaging, it is actually as dangerous as physical damage, since miswritten data may Read more…

By Dmitry Postrigan, ago
Data recovery

Data Recovery & Forensic Cases

How do you start your working day? Data recovery (DR) and Forensic specialists are highly known because of their workplace, aren’t they? A computer with the case removed and wires sticking out, piles of hard disc drives with various stickers and labels, and more wires is typically a confusing, disorganized mess. You have just come to work and you are still sleepily looking towards your plans for the day, and suddenly, the telephone rings! It’s your biggest client, and he is asking lots of questions. But how do you keep all these data in your mind? Of course, you can have notes somewhere, but is that really useful and effective? Read more…

By Dmitry Postrigan, ago
Atola Bandura

Atola Bandura 2.0 – your time saving solution

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 imaging, wiping, and repairing increased up to 30%; More strong support of SSD disks attached to Target port; Correct DCO and HPA processing for disks larger than 2 TB; New complete icons on buttons. Atola Bandura 2.0 hardware unit has the following improvements: More physical security to SATA- ports; New touchscreen with a strong resistance to ESD; Renewed hardware platform Read more…

By Vitaliy Mokosiy, ago
Uncategorized

Atola Bandura. Best results in imaging, wiping, and testing!

Looking for professional Imager, Wiper, and Tester? Tired of slow imaging and complicated usability? Atola Bandura is the perfect solution for you! The fastest tool in the market both with the brilliant ease of use! Don’t miss an exclusive interview with Atola Bandura project manager and lead developer, Vitaliy Mokosiy. You will learn history of the product, case studies, client feedback, technical details and many more. Be the first one to find out more about Atola Bandura! Follow the link to read the article. Note: According to our agreements with Hakin9, we can post only the Teaser edition. If you want to read the full edition, please register here.

By Dmitry Postrigan, ago