I was thinking more in terms of application data, thank you for giving me this perspective.
But still wondering: does the amount of this data really warrant compression? I mean the smallest sensible size of an SSD is around 100GB and it has lots of performance.
In this case, the svn repos and samba shares are way over 100GB and even with classic HDDs, the machine can saturate the network and still be basically idling. No need for SSDs, classic drives were more cost effective.
The compression was just something nice to have. Lz4 in filesystem is basically for free.
But still wondering: does the amount of this data really warrant compression? I mean the smallest sensible size of an SSD is around 100GB and it has lots of performance.