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Atola Insight Forensic

Locate Sectors in Atola Insight Forensic 5.1

We are excited to release one of the biggest software updates for Atola Insight Forensic! The 5.1 version supports both DiskSense and DiskSense 2 units. On top of that, with 5.1, Atola Insight Forensic has become a 64-bit application and is no longer limited to ~4 GB of memory. The major changes in the new Atola Insight are: app-wide XFS support performance and memory improvements a first-in-the-industry feature: Locate Sectors We continue to push boundaries and innovate. Our team believes that a modern imaging hardware should provide more than images with hashes. Atola Insight Forensic has always been famous for damaged drive diagnostics and imaging. Later, sector-level artifact search during Read more…

By Vitaliy Mokosiy, 3 years ago

Atola TaskForce

XFS, RAID 10 and new imaging features. TaskForce 2021.8 is here!

Imaging and RAID functionality are enhanced in the new release: Enjoy the RAID 10 and XFS support as well as HEX and Signature tabs in imaging.

By Yulia Samoteykina, 3 years ago

Atola Insight Forensic

Imaging and hot plug of NVMe drives with DiskSense 2

This new hardware unit allows you to image NVMe drives using M.2 SSD extension module at high speeds and avoid shutting the system to replace the drive in the extension module.

By Yulia Samoteykina, 3 years ago

Atola Insight Forensic

The Story of Atola Insight hardware

Atola Insight Forensic is a product with 13-year-long history, which started with the launch of Atola Insight USB.

By Yulia Samoteykina, 3 years ago

Atola Insight Forensic

Imaging 3 sources with Insight’s new DiskSense 2 hardware unit

The hardware revamp is great news for small forensic labs that have been experiencing higher data volumes within their investigations: DiskSense 2 allows performing 3 imaging sessions in parallel.

By Yulia Samoteykina, 3 years ago

Atola Insight Forensic

Atola Insight Forensic gets new high-performance hardware!

The new hardware unit, DiskSense 2 is equipped with server-grade components allows the users of Atola Insight Forensic to triple the throughput of data with maximum reliability of data transfer.

By Yulia Samoteykina, 3 years ago

Atola TaskForce

Imaging Presets: create optimal imaging routines and share them with colleagues

For examiners who need to ensure they are using specific imaging settings for certain types of drives or cases, TaskForce has presets functionality for easy, one-click switching to a specific imaging routine. Presets can be shared with colleagues who use another TaskForce with a simple export/import.

By Yulia Samoteykina, 3 years ago

Atola TaskForce

Multi-launch of hashing, wiping and diagnostics in TaskForce

When you need to wipe a bunch of target drives for subsequent imaging sessions or double-check hash values on multiple drives in your archive, multi-launch functionality in TaskForce helps you save time and avoid repeated clicks to complete such multi-drive tasks. This function is currently supported for three single-drive tasks: Hashing, Wiping, Diagnostics.

By Yulia Samoteykina, 3 years ago

TaskForce high-performance forensic imager

Atola TaskForce

The Story of TaskForce in 11 Acts

Looking back at these three years, you notice how fast TaskForce has transformed. From an extremely flexible high-capacity imager with a traditional forensic feature set to an even more productive and innovative tool. TaskForce now offers unique solutions for emerging and long-standing problems of forensic examiners like RAID support and automation.

By Yulia Samoteykina, 4 years ago

Atola TaskForce

AFF4 support in Atola TaskForce 2021.4

Atola is pleased to announce the support of AFF4 files in Atola TaskForce, which makes it the second hardware imager able to create AFF4 files after Atola Insight Forensic! Imaging to AFF4 AFF4 is a highly optimized open-source forensic file format with a wide range of benefits: Open-source format: you can describe it in a court Supports multi-pass imaging Fast compression methods: Snappy and LZ4 Block hashes Stores binary zeroes as spans similar to sparse files Vendor-neutral AFF4’s block hashes are calculated for small segments of data on the drive and are stored in a table inside AFF4 metadata and there is a Block map hash that represents a single Read more…

By Yulia Samoteykina, 4 years ago