docs: Clarify compression arguments

linz · Oct 3, 2024 · ad88437 · ad88437
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@@ -10,9 +10,12 @@ Pro compression:
 
 - Saves money on storage
 - Saves time and money on transfer of data
+- Metadata files are highly compressible, since they have a lot of text strings and repetition
 
 Contra compression:
 
 - Some tools do not seamlessly decompress files
   - [AWS CLI issue](https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/issues/6765)
   - [boto3 issue](https://github.com/boto/botocore/issues/1255)
+- Any files on S3 "[smaller than 128 KB](https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/)" (presumably actually 128 KiB) are treated as being 128 KB for pricing purposes, so there would be no price gain from compressing any files which are smaller than this
+- The extra development time to deal with compressing and decompressing would probably not offset the savings