Meet Guardonix
USB3.0 Accelerator, Stabilizer, and Writeblocker
A feature-rich writeblocker which enables Windows applications to work with damaged/unstable storage devices, accelerates flash storage acquisitions, and helps with triage by performing keyword searches in real time during imaging.
Standard Edition
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Enables forensic acquisition of USB storage devices by blocking all write commands to preserve data integrity.
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Helps prevent USB storage devices from being dropped by Windows due to bad sectors or other read instability issues.
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Has a small form factor and works bus powered with most storage devices.
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Provides short circuit protection for the source drive and allows manually turning power on/off.
Professional Edition
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Accelerates acquisition speed of SSDs and other fast flash storage devices by an average of 30%, compared to a direct, writeblocker-free connection to USB3.0.
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Enforces read timeout by hardware reset and/or repower, dramatically speeding up bad sector processing, which allows imaging highly degraded HDDs/SSDs.
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Allows searching for specific keywords within the data going through the device in real time, and in most cases without reducing imaging speed.
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ATA password & WD Smartware unlocking, access to HPA/DCO/AMAC data areas, graphical speed display, USB-SCSI error reporting, complete sector-level status information, and much more.
Guardonix is the latest release from DeepSpar, a Canadian manufacturer of professional data recovery equipment since 2004. Guardonix takes advantage of key functionality which was previously only offered by professional data recovery tools to help visualize, track, and control the data acquisition process.