A computer forensic accelerator engine designed to speed up the forensic analysis process is disclosed. It is a device for use with an analysis device to analyze data on a suspect computer device, and includes a first interface for connecting to the suspect computer device, a second interface for connecting to the analysis device, and a processing unit programmed to read data from the suspect device via the first interface, perform analysis on the data, transmit the data to the analysis device via the second interface, and transmit results of the analysis to the analysis device via the second interface. A drive write protect module may be integrated in the computer forensic accelerator engine. The computer forensic accelerator engine allows data read from the suspect drive to be analyzed while acquiring the data. Also disclosed is a computer forensic analysis system and method using the computer forensic accelerator engine.