I must admit to being one of those that hangs back to see what the experience of others is before upgrading. I know there are others who can't wait to role up their sleves and dive in.
So for those that have given it a try, marks out of 10?
3 out of 10.
The product is good, but wow is it unpolished and slower than…well it's slow.
I tried FTK 2.0 on 2 cases and "shelved" it because of the issues that hogfly described. I can't charge my clients for the 10-15 minutes it takes to switch tabs. I run everything on one machine and my hardware meets the requirements
MACBook Pro 17" Bootcamped to Run XP SP2
DuoCore 2.5Ghz
4GB of RAM
Suspect Drive is external Firewire 800
FTK 2.0.2 came out last week and I loaded it yesterday and am currently processing a case to try it again. I have already noticed improvements of actually being able to access the evidence while it is processing. I will be starting the investigation tonight and will report back my opinion.
Greetings,
I will be attending the FTK 2.0 class at HTCIA in San Francisco next week. I'm hoping that the combination of that class and version 2.0.2 will allow me to effectively use the tool. We shall see.
-David
I'm starting to think that AccessData needs to include a magic wand icon in the "Data Processing Status" because they really provide nothing useful in terms of what the tool is doing there.
All I see is "processing Evidence <image>", the progress bar and "In Progress…". At least in 1.x I could tell what the hell was happening.
I think a magic wand and maybe a voice over that says "vooodoooo" would be appropriate.
I tried it again.. not going to give my full opinion, just a blanket statement.
I am actually having a worse experience than I did with FTK 2.0. Do not waste your time time trying to use it. Put it on the shelf next to FTK 2.0.
Greetings,
I'm renewing my X-Ways license and pulling my EnCE study guide off the shelf and working on it….
-David
What I find frightening is that regardless of which system its used on, the performance still sucks. I have a quad core w/ 8gb ram, striped raptors and oracle on a raid 5 and it doesn't make a difference. I've got more powerful systems at my disposal so I could separate oracle from the application, but I'm not about to sacrifice them for a subpar application. Quite honestly I don't think it would make a difference.
Thanks guys for all the posts, not a pretty picture so far.
Very interested in Hogfly's comments re performace and hardware setup.
FTK2 was was a long time coming and I had assumed that , due to this delay, we would be getting a more polished article.
I have a quad core w/ 8gb ram, striped raptors and oracle on a raid 5 and it doesn't make a difference..
Wow! Now that is some serious power.. still slow on that platform? Shame.