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(@jata02)
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My current imaging/analysis machine is just another HP desktop with an i5, integrated graphics, 4GBs of ram and a couple 7200rpm HDDs. Our old FRED system (2006) puked a few months ago.

I'm going to request a small budget of 3000 to build one instead of buying a 5-12k FRED system. I already have a brand new suite of write blockers and I can probably scavenge the internal WB from our old fred machine.

I need help justifying this. So what are the biggest benefits from having a powerful machine to run Encase on?

 
Posted : 14/03/2014 6:04 pm
jaclaz
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I need help justifying this. So what are the biggest benefits from having a powerful machine to run Encase on?

Use a Clarksonism 😯
http//clarksonisms.com/jeremy-clarkson-quotes/popular/72314-i-believe-in-speed-power-power-and-speed-solve-many-things

I believe in speed - power… power and speed solve many things!

And of course
http//auto-fail.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/demotivational-jeremy-clarkson-ariel-atom.jpg

FALRLGALGHLAGLHALRRGLAG!

Seriously, more power=more speed=less time to do a job.
Given that time=money, more power=less money.

Now point is how this "gained" time/money is used, examples (in order of decreasing probability of being found a good justification)

  1. to increase earnings of the company that will be reflected in a raising of the salary of the supervisor that authorizes buying the new rig
  2. to increase earnings of the company that will raise the income of the owner(s).
  3. to reduce tariffs and thus make your company more competitive (then loop to #1 or #2)
  4. to save money in order to buy some even more powerful hardware. ?
  5. to make your life less miserable wink
  6. [/listo]

    jaclaz

 
Posted : 14/03/2014 7:58 pm
Bulldawg
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Old thread, I know, but I can't imagine running EnCase on the described computer on a daily basis.

For EnCase 7x or FTK, you're underpowered by a good bit. Digital Intelligence put out a whitepaper on EnCase performance about a year ago. You need at least three hard drives–one of which should be as fast as you can afford for the evidence cache. We have a mix of machines with RAID 5, 10 (spinning disks) and RAID 0 (4 SSDs twisted )

Minimum RAM is about 32 GB, but I'd recommend going with 64 if possible. This might mean stepping up to a Xeon processor depending on the motherboard. Processor speed is surprisingly unimportant. Spend your money on disk performance first and RAM second.

Link to Digital Intelligence whitepaper

Justification should be simple–we spent $3000+ on this software and we can only get about 1/2 out of it because the hardware is underpowered. If you spent that much on software, why wouldn't you spend more on hardware also to make maximum use of the software and serve your clients better and faster?

 
Posted : 27/03/2014 2:48 am
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