> Nowadays a disc is massive and worrying about compression is daft I wouldn't go that far. I've professionally seen storage pools with a compression factor of

> Nowadays a disc is massive and worrying about compression is daft I wouldn't go that far. I've professionally seen storage pools with a compression factor of 2-3x, and it really mattered at that job. For that matter, my home directory on the laptop I'm writing this comment from is sitting around 1.2-1.3x, and that's pretty nice. I dunno if I'd make a whole lot of effort (although if I was getting paid to save money on storing terabytes, it might be worthwhile), but the technology has evolved in ease of use.