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System Recommendations and performance hints:

*** Paraben’s Forensic Sorter Doesn’t run on Windows 98 or ME.

During in house tests the following notes were made:

Consider the following machines:

Machine 1 – Speedy (Suggested)
2 GHz Processor,
512 MB Ram,
Windows XP

Machine 2 – Purple Turtle (Usable but not suggested unless for small drives and images)
448 MHz Processor,
128 MB Ram
Windows 2000

Tests:
Speedy

Test Drive #3	1.44 Meg Floppy	Run time 3.5 min.
Test Drive #4	Floppy Image over net	Run time 2 min.
Test Drive #6	100 Meg NTFS Zip Disk	Run time 23.5 min.
Test Drive #8	Test #6 Zip Image	Run time 1.5 min.
Test Drive #9	8.5 GB NTFS Drive	Run time 3 hr. 43 min.

Purple Turtle

Test Drive #1	“My” 128 USB	Run time 25 min.
Test Drive #3	1.44 Meg Floppy	Run time 3.5 min.
Test Drive #4	Floppy Image over net	Run time 5.5 min.
Test Drive #6	100 Meg NTFS Zip Disk	Run time 26 min.
Test Drive #8	Test #6 Zip Image	Run time 5.5 min.
Test Drive #9	8.5 GB NTFS Drive	Run time approx. 11hr.

Notes: Raw Images of Drive can be processed much faster then the Physical Drive itself. Outputting over the network to a slow computer can greatly reduce the Sorting output time. If you are running PFS on a Purple Turtle (a slow computer like Machine 3) you may experience sorts or even multiple sorts to occasionally stop processing, especially if the machine starts running out of virtual memory. This can sometimes happen, when you start new programs or even starting a new sort while old ones are still running. The processing will usually start again but the amount of time it takes to restart is undetermined. It seems writing time is what costs the purple turtle the most time.