Experiencing very slow verification speed using FTK Imager

Users are experiencing significantly slow FTK Imager verification times when verifying their images from our file servers (WS2019 Standard VMs) for their processed images. Processing to our file servers may go at 60 MB/s yet verifying those same images may go at 7 MB/s. This is happening for all users regardless of what data they are trying to verify. We host the virtual file servers on Dell R730s running Hyper-V.

I have tried setting exclusions in Windows Defender for the …

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