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Atola Adds iSCSI Support And Enhanced RAID Features To Its TaskForce Imagers

20th May 2025

Atola’s latest TaskForce update adds iSCSI support, making it possible to image remote drives that can’t be physically removed—alongside major improvements to RAID handling, imaging speed, and a new built-in Hex viewer.

Andrew Tyshchenko, Head of Hardware, Atola Technology

9th January 20259th January 2025

Explore the innovation behind Atola’s TaskForce 2 forensic imager—designed for speed, scalability, and forensic excellence.

Atola Introduces Btrfs And LVM Support In Insight Forensic 5.6

16th December 2024

Atola Technology’s latest update brings Btrfs and LVM support to Insight Forensic.

Atola TaskForce Imagers Now Support Synology NAS

11th July 20242nd July 2024

With the latest firmware update, Atola Technology enables automatic reassembly and imaging of Synology NAS RAIDs in its flagship TaskForce and TaskForce 2 forensic hardware imagers. Firmware update 2024.6 introduces an improved RAID module that supports Synology NAS systems, Btrfs,

Atola Insight Forensic Gets iSCSI Support for Remote Imaging

11th April 2024

Atola Technology released a software update for Atola Insight Forensic, a fast forensic imaging system with the capacity to run 3 simultaneous imaging sessions and work with damaged media. Version 5.5 brings support for the iSCSI protocol, enabling remote imaging

Atola Technology – 20 Years Of Digital Forensics Hardware Expertise

28th December 202327th December 2023

Dmitry, when you founded Atola 20 years ago, did you envision where the company would end up by 2023? Back in 2003, Atola began with an ambition to create revolutionary technology rather than business. Having worked in the data recovery

Atola Adds RAID 6 Support To Its TaskForce Imagers

16th November 2023

Atola Technology introduces the long-awaited support for RAID 6 in a new firmware version 2023.10 for both its forensic hardware imagers: the portable TaskForce with 18 ports and the newest TaskForce 2 with 26 ports, including four M.2 NVMe ports,

Atola Technology Launches TaskForce 2, A New Generation Of High-Performance Forensic Imagers

11th July 202311th July 2023

Atola Technology releases TaskForce 2, a new version of its flagship forensic imager. The new device has 26 ports, including four M.2 NVMe ports, and can image 25+ drives simultaneously, including damaged media, reaching 25 TB/hour cumulative speed. With TaskForce

Questions and Answers about Atola Imagers from Digital Forensic Events in 2022

6th February 2023

In 2022, Atola held an unprecedented number of offline and online meetings with our customers. On the one hand, offline conferences finally returned firmly into our business lives. On the other, we created opportunities to meet DFIR practitioners to explain

Yulia Samoteykina, Director of Marketing, Atola Technology

22nd December 202222nd December 2022

FF: Yulia, please tell us about your background, how you got into digital forensics and your role at Atola. Yulia: I joined Atola in 2016, and it was the technology that first drew my attention. I was still fresh to

Atola TaskForce Gets APFS Support and Improved RAID Autoreassembly in Latest Update

28th November 2022

On November 21 Atola Technology released a firmware update for Atola TaskForce, a high-performance forensic imager capable of running 12+ parallel imaging sessions at 15 TB/hour cumulative speed. With the new firmware version 2022.10, TaskForce users can: Unlock and image

How Atola TaskForce’s New Logical Imaging Module Speeds Up Your Investigation

25th April 202225th April 2022

What do you need in logical imaging functionality? Here are some of the answers from Atola’s customers accumulated over the years: “We would want to be able to verify with the client the number of successful files recovered, preferably by

John Graham, Director of Sales and Business Development, Atola Technology

19th January 2022

A bald Caucasian man wearing glasses and a black shirt standing against a white background

John, you will soon be celebrating your 10-year anniversary of working for Atola Technology. Tell us how the company has changed since you joined. Atola has grown incredibly since I started, from just a few people to now teams in

“How do I reassemble a RAID if I know nothing about it?” or the Story behind TaskForce’s RAID Module

6th January 202223rd December 2021

“I keep on telling my field techs to at least mark the order of the drives in a tower when they are pulling them out!” says our new acquaintance at one of the first post-pandemic offline events. These bunches of

Atola Releases TaskForce 2021.8 Firmware With XFS, RAID 10, Imaging Enhancements

9th September 20219th September 2021

Atola software development team has long been focused on supporting more filesystems for the different system modules as well as RAID types to enhance the work with arrays of drives with an unknown configuration. The 2021.8 release also includes additions

3 Parallel Imaging Sessions On Good Or Bad Drives With Atola Insight Forensic And DiskSense 2

31st August 2021

In July, Atola Technology released a new generation of hardware units for Atola Insight Forensic. The new unit is named DiskSense 2 and it comes with a range of improvements. Insight’s hardware enhancement DiskSense 2 is equipped with a server-grade