2026-07-27 16:39 UTC
okay... it knows that trans compression with HDDs, like with lz4, or zstd, but.. how far does that go? Does it peak at default levels? or does it get better at let's say zstd-6?
Maybe will poke around that some day awawawa
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@siblingsofthevoid@void.lgbt 2026-07-27 20:41
@0x0cb9d119@akko.wtf If you look at ZSTD, after ZSTD-5 is where you'll reach diminishing returns. Basically: The speed at which you compress goes significantly higher for not much better compression ratios.
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@lispi314@udongein.xyz 2026-07-27 17:22
@0x0cb9d119@akko.wtf Depends on how the filesystem handles it and depends on the dataset. The better implementations will prefer to write something uncompressed than compressed if compressing the data increases its size (this is a thing with data that's already compressed, among other things; this includes most image formats).