> Maybe you can speed up an entire server, even one with lots of free space and no need for compression, by adding full disk compression anyway! Yes. Although

> Maybe you can speed up an entire server, even one with lots of free space and no need for compression, by adding full disk compression anyway! Yes. Although not all filesystems support compression. One of the filesystems that does support and this is regularly benchmarked, is ZFS. It is also interesting that while you are definitely using more CPU to read a compressed stream, if that causes you to finish your task earlier, then it can be a net gain even from a CPU usage standpoint. eg. https://www.servethehome.com/the-case-for-using-zfs-compression/ https://www.servethehome.com/the-case-for-using-zfs-compress...