Hi folks,
I am currently testing Cryptomator as an alternative to Boxcryptor Classic (free), which I have been using successfully for years, but which is long past its end of life and besides, it only allows one vault.
After I noticed that Cryptomator-Dokany was ~5x slower than Boxcryptor in writing a realistic set of ~5 GB and ~20.000 files (initially, empty vault) I did some tests with CrystalDiskMark6 and the Parkdale speed test mostly comparing Dokany and WebDAV and found that Dokany was lagging WebDAV especially when writing and with a margin of up to 1:36.
My test setup was a Lenovo W540 with 32 GB and a 1TB EVO SSD, Win81 Pro. I checked that (HiDrive) Synchronization was halted in all cases and that the Dokany driver used by Cryptomator was the latest version. Below are the results from CrystalDiskMark6, which are fully in line with the Parkdale results, which I tested against, mostly for sanity checking reasons:
Test type Dokany WebDAV Ratio
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Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) 215,755 310,508 69,48%
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) 22,650 196,729 11,51%
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) 21,661 24,558 88,20%
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) 5,749 23,544 24,42%
Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) 1,572 31,784 4,95%
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) 2,041 75,433 2,71%
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) 1,978 36,542 5,41%
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) 1,489 37,580 3,96%
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Test : 500 MiB [K: 82.6% (745.7/902.9 GiB)] (x3) [Interval=5 sec]
At those write rates, Dokany vaults are completely useless, but the WebDAV rates are pretty good and equal if not even better than those of Boxcryptor. However, since I would rather use Dokany than WebDAV with Cryptomator, I would be much interested to hear if anyone can confirm this slowness also for the latest Cryptomator version?
Regards,
Ingmar