What peripheral devices should be stocked in your computer forensics lab?

What will be an ideal response?


ANSWER: In addition to workstations and software, all labs should have a wide assortment of cables and spare expansion slot cards. Consider stocking your forensics lab with the following peripheral devices:
* A digital camera capable of still and motion recording
* Assorted antistatic bags
* An external CD/DVD drive
* 40-pin 18-inch and 36-inch IDE cables, both ATA-33 and ATA-100 or faster
* Ribbon cables for floppy disks
* Extra USB 3.0 or newer cables and SATA cards and associated cables
* Extra SCSI cards, preferably ultra-wide
* Graphics cards, both Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) and Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
* Assorted FireWire and USB adapters
* A variety of hard drives and USB drives (as many as you can afford and in as wide a variety as possible)
* At least two 2.5-inch adapters from notebook IDE hard drives to standard IDE/ATA drives, SATA drives, and so on
* Computer hand tools, such as Phillips and flathead screwdrivers, a socket wrench, any vendor-specific tools, a small flashlight, and an antistatic wrist strap

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