We do not guarantee the same performance in your environment. Performance can vary significantly depending on data sets and systems used when running the tests. The sole purpose of this section of the User Guide is to indicate the relation between hardware specs and performance (throughput: files, GB, or MB per minute) when using MetaDefender Drive.
Test Systems Info
typical installations of different operating systems: Windows, macOS, Linux
test machines spec are [4 Cores, 8GB] to [12 Cores, 32GB]
MetaDefender Drive version 3.11.0
Test Results
Reference System 1:
**Hardware:**Dell Vostro 3670 Tower, Core i7-8700, 3.2GHz, 12CPUs, 32GB, NVMe and Sata3 SSD
Dataset:
File system: Mix of Ubuntu 20.04 (EXT4, LUKS), Windows 2019 (NTFS, BitLocker) and macOS Catalina (APFS, FileVault)
Total files: 1,299,798
Total data size: 923GB
Results:
Scan time: 11 hours, 12 minutes, 54 seconds
Throughput: 1,931 files / 1.37 GB / minute
Reference System 2:
Hardware: Lenovo ThinkCentre M820z, Core i5-8500, 3.0GHz, 6CPUs, 32GB, NVMe
Dataset:
File system: Windows 10 IoT ENT 2016
Total files: 345,751
Total size: 80.4GB
Results:
Scan time: *2 hours, 39 minutes, 58 seconds *
Throughput: 2160 files / 500 MB / minute
Reference System 3:
Hardware_:_ mac mini 2012, Core i7-3615QM, 2.3GHz, 8CPUs, 16GB, SSD Sata3
Dataset:
File system: macOS Catalina, APFS, FileVault
Total files: 145,995
Total data size: 64.1GB
Results:
Scan time: 3 hour, 05 minutes, 55 seconds
Throughput: 780 files / 345 MB / minute
