Atola TaskForce
Imaging partitions of a RAID array
Here is how TaskForce’s RAID functionality helps you minimize imaging time by imaging selected partitions of a RAID array.
Atola TaskForce
Imaging RAID 5 array with errors on multiple drives
When imaging RAID 5 array with errors on multiple drives, Atola TaskForce is still able to detect its parameters and image the whole RAID. Let’s examine a case with a RAID 5 consisting of 5 drives, two of which have bad sectors. Reassembling RAID 5 array with errors on multiple drives Click the RAID button in the left-side taskbar and select the drives that make up the RAID array. TaskForce autodetection module starts running immediately upon selection of the RAID members. In Stage 1, TaskForce reads data on the drives to identify the RAID type. In case it runs across an error, it displays an Error tag next to the corresponding RAID Read more…
Conferences
Top digital forensics conferences in 2021
This a list of 20+ most prominent events in digital forensics worldwide in 2021 and beyond. Even though there is no certainty as to when the offline events will be happening again, there is growing enthusiasm and hope for meetings to restart soon.
Atola Insight Forensic
Atola Insight 4.17 with AFF4 support
Our dev team has decided to celebrate 2021 with a new software update. With this release, Atola Insight Forensic has become the first forensic hardware imager in the world that is able to image into AFF4 files! Here is why AFF4 support is so important. AFF4 imager So what’s the big deal about AFF4? This file format has several upsides: Open-source format: you can describe it in a court Fast compression methods: Snappy and LZ4 Block hashes It stores binary zeroes as spans (in a “sparse file” manner) Vendor-neutral Since our team is always focused on performance and AFF4 is a highly optimized file format, Insight’s imaging speed will be Read more…
Company news
Atola’s 2020. The Year in Review
The Atola team wishes you peace, joy and prosperity throughout the coming year. We are grateful for finishing 2020 stronger and with a sense of optimism.
Atola TaskForce
The importance of ECC RAM in forensic imagers
When working with evidence drives, data integrity is critical. Using ECC RAM, which identifies and corrects common single-bit errors, would help dramatically improve data transfer reliability in digital forensic tools. Why use ECC memory Electrical, magnetic or even radioactive interference inside a system, may cause a single bit of DRAM (Dynamic Random-Access Memory) to flip to the opposite state, resulting in an error. While the single-bit error in an ordinary situation could be harmless or have a comparatively mild effect (like a wrongly colored pixel in a .jpeg file), in forensic imaging, it means that the whole image you get is compromised. Because the hash of the image won’t be Read more…
Atola TaskForce
How to benefit from the range of sources and targets in Atola TaskForce
How often are you faced with a case with multiple individual devices with different interfaces (HDDs, SSDs, NVMe, USB, etc.) or a whole RAID array? If all you have on your hands is one imager with no parallel imaging capacity, it can result in a prohibitive processing timeline. To help you tackle such cases, we equipped TaskForce with huge performance capacity, backed by server-class hardware: TaskForce handles 12+ parallel imaging sessions on its 18 ports. In this blog, we show how the range of sources and targets you can use for imaging. Atola TaskForce’s configurability: the range of source and targets The product has been designed with the configurability, flexibility, Read more…
Atola TaskForce
Atola TaskForce 2020.7.1 introduces RAID and connectivity features
TaskForce’s 2020.7.1 firmware makes its operation in a network effortless and further enhances autodetection of RAID:
– add a missing device to RAID 5
– up to 100,000,000 configurations checked
– output narrowed down to just 1 in 90+% of cases!
Atola TaskForce
Screen cover for TaskForce
Made of lightweight metal, the cover protects the screen from scratches and other types of damage and allows fast packing of the hardware unit for transportation.
Atola TaskForce
Imaging RAID 0 array
TaskForce has a unique RAID configuration detection module. Furthermore, it is able to sustain multiple high-speed imaging sessions on its 18 ports. This makes it a perfect imager to perform reassembly of RAID with an unknown configuration and fast forensic imaging of such arrays. Here is how imaging RAID 0 array becomes an effortless job! Assembling a RAID 0 array To assemble RAID 0, follow these steps: Connect the drives that make up a RAID array to the TaskForce hardware unit. Most importantly, make sure to switch the ports to the Source mode; Click the RAID button in the left-side taskbar 3. Select the drives in Select source device panel and Read more…
