Copying to MFT

1. Environment

Using the K1001 model device in the local test environment. This is a controlled, isolated environment.

Server	vCPU	Memory (GB)	OS	Disk type
MD KIOSK (K1001)	24	32	Windows 10 IoT Enterprise	SSD
MD CORE (K1001)	24	32	Windows 10 IoT Enterprise	SSD
MFT (VAULT)	16	32	Windows Server 2022	SSD

USB Storage Device (stores data & connects to MD KIOSK server)

128GB KINGSTON DataTraveler Exodia DTX

Client (runs the Python scripts & collects measurement values)

OS: Windows 2022
vCPU: 8 cores
Memory: 16GB

Network Bandwidth

10 Gigabit Ethernet

2. Test flow

Files are scanned by MD Core and Allowed files are uploaded to MFT.

3. Dataset

Detailed information of the dataset below will be used for testing:

File category	File type	Number of files	Total size (MB)	Average File Size (MB)
Adobe	PDF	370	385 MB	1.0 MB
Executable	EXE	45	309.5 MB	6.9 MB
	MSI	15	45.75 MB	3.1 MB
Image	BMP	80	515 MB	6.4 MB
	JPG	420	237.5 MB	0.6 MB
	PNG	345	169 MB	0.5 MB
Media	MP3	135	865 MB	6.4 MB
	MP4	50	500 MB	10.0 MB
Office	DOCX	235	190 MB	0.8 MB
	DOC	225	486 MB	2.2 MB
	PPTX	365	860 MB	2.4 MB
	PPT	355	1950 MB	5.5 MB
	XLSX	340	283.5 MB	0.8 MB
	XLS	335	284.5 MB	0.8 MB
Text	CSV	100	236 MB	2.4 MB
	HTML	1075	76 MB	0.1 MB
	TXT	500	210 MB	0.4 MB
Archive	ZIP	Compressed files: 10 Extracted files: 270	Compressed size: 125.5 MB Extracted size: 156.5 MB	Avg compressed size: 12.6 MB Avg extracted size: 0.6 MB

Sumarry (compressed):

Number of files: 5000
Total size (MB): 7728.5 MB
Average File Size (MB): 1.55 MB average file size

Sumarry (extracted):

Number of files: 5260
Total size (MB): 7759.5 MB
Average File Size (MB): 1.48 MB average file size

Largest file size: 24.7 MB

Smallest file size: 5 KB

4. Product versions to be tested

MD Kiosk 4.6.6
MD Core 5.8.0
- Anti-virus: 5 engines (AhnLab, Avira, ClamAV, ESET, Microsoft Defender)
- DLP: 2.18.0
- CDR: 6.8.1
- Vulnerability: 4.2.416.0
- Archive: 6.5.1
- FileType: 6.5.1
MD MFT 3.6.0.0

5. MD Core settings

The performance will be measured as below MD Core settings.

General settings

Turn off data retention
Turn off the engine update

Archive extraction

Enable engine
Max recursion level: 99999999
Max number of extracted files: 99999999
Max total size of extracted files: 99999999
Timeout: 10 mins
Handle archive extraction task as
- Failed: true
- Partially: true

Filetype

Enable engine
Timeout: 5 mins

Metascan

Enable 8 engines
Max file size: 99999999
Global scan timeout: 20 mins
Per-engine scan timeout: 5 mins

CDR

Enable

DLP

Enable

Archive Compression

Enable

6. Test result

Copy options	1 thread	4 threads	7 threads
Upload files and preserve directory structure	42 minutes	17 minutes	12 minutes
Upload files, preserve directory structure and send scan results	50 minutes	10 minutes	12 minutes
Upload a zip archive containing the files	2 minutes	2 minutes	2 minutes

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