While Deepspar Imager is the best imager ever , It could be highly efficient for older IDE disks.
My query is how useful is for modern SATA drives?
With complex firmwares & full of bugs ( Seagate 7200.12 series) with multiple Heads. Can someone share his experience?
Thanks

90% ++ of the drives we now image are SATA and it works great.

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Ditto

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I don't see any difference between IDE and SATA on the imager, with the exception of having to use an adapter for the SATA drive.

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Be a little careful with your adaptors. (at least do a trial test with a know good drive.)
There appear to be some generic brands on the market that do not seem to correctly handle bigger drives. (failures/ random behavior over 1.x TB)

I was going to spend some time looking into it (after my current job)
with a view to seeing if the devices are just locking up/have timing problems/wrapping internally or if they are cheap fakes. (I spend time in the China electronic markets tracking fake products)
These items cost me less that $2.00 US each including nice packaging and cables , but I have seen this stuff floating about commercially for way more.(>$20 U.S a piece)

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SATA works great. Imaged many >1TB SATA drives with it perfectly.

code_slave, I'm using the IDE to SATA adapter supplied with the unit. Works great.

If it was supplied with the unit I would expect it to work, but what I have seen on forensics , they tend more towards software solutions (sleuth kit, Autopsy) , then use write blockers, but some of the older kit is IDE only, so they buy a SATA/IDE converter and run into problems on bigger drives.

Now don't get me wrong and I'm not trying to upset you or say you are incorrect, but when you say it "works great" , have you actually validated the results (SHA2*)?

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