RE: Hard Drive Duplicators for computer forensic any recommendation?

["Murda Mcloud" <murdamcloud () bigpond com>]

That's actually a very good point-I know because using nc to pipe a block
image of a 40gb drive was an overnight operation.
The other day a USB from a box to an 'ultra' ATA drive was 40Gb in 45
minutes using adepto. This included the verify/hash stage.

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: listbounce () securityfocus com [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com]
> > On Behalf Of Ali, Saqib
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 1:54 AM
> > To: Anjar Priandoyo
> > Cc: security-basics () securityfocus com
> > Subject: Re: Hard Drive Duplicators for computer forensic any
> > recommendation?
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > This maybe irrelevant, but in software based disk duplication
> > utilities, the software isn't usually the bottleneck. It is the
> > interface over which the data is being transferred. If you are using
> > USB interface to connect to a SATA drive, the transfer rate is on
> > 480Mbit/sec (0.5 Gbit/sec). Whereas if you use a eSATA interface you
> > can get transfer of 3Gbit/sec. That is about 6x faster.
> >
> > saqib
> > http://www.full-disk-encryption.net/wiki