Not had an issue with that before. May sound a silly question, but is the physical dump output folder produced by the UFED being copied locally first on both desktop and laptop before importing into PA? (Not being opened from an external USB stick, which would be utilizing USB 2.0 speed).
I haven't tried copying the file to my desk top yet. I will try that.
Having the extraction stored on a local drive will definitely make the decoding much faster.
Are you using the same PA versions on both computers ( Win 7 and Win 8)?
I have also sent you a private message.
Ron
Yah same PA, same USB/file.
Any idea why the physical file would load faster to a 32-bit laptop than a 64-bit PC?
We did some performance tests with the physical analyzer (3.9.2) and here is what we concluded so far
- there is no real performance difference depending on diskspeed. We did run it on a hdd, ssd and a ramdisk. ( location of the image file that was decoded) But an external stored image will slow down the decoding.
- the physical analyzer didnt seem to use more than one cpu while the decoder is running.
so there is no real gain from a multicore cpu.
- Single-CPU Speed seems to be the limiting factor.
Looking at the resource monitor from the system we saw that while the decoder is running there is not much disk I/O and medium ram swap.
So the reason could(!) be a difference in single-cpu performance between your 64bit system and the 32Bit system…
In our case a i5 mobile cpu with activated turbo (clocked @ 3,3 Ghz) outperformed a desktop i7 clocked at 2.2 Ghz (no turbo activated) - allthough the i7 has more cores and "seems" to be the better cpu.
After a little work this morning I found the problem was the Dongle driver hadn't installed property. I re-installed the software and the issue is resolved.
Thanks for all the input.
CM