I have seen this theory floated a few times. The problem is that reading uncompressed files from disk can often be slower than reading less data and decompressing it on the fly efficiently. Would be interesting to see actual studies of this for common game data.

170 GB is insane. Publishers should really get punished for making larger than average deliveries. Most of that size usage usually comes from poor optimization.

Could you edit the post and add the actual store links? Thanks!

Thanks for taking the time to write this!

Interesting, I didn’t know about that.

https://docs.syncthing.net/users/untrusted.html

https://store.steampowered.com/app/358270/Death_Rally_Classic/

Free nowadays.

How big part in the game is crafting?

Do you use dropbear and manually input the password to unlock the LUKS partition, or have you scripted something to automate that?

Thanks for the comments. I agree on the general consensus, that once an encryption key enters the VPS, the encryption is compromised.

However, I’m thinking more in practical terms, eg. the service provider doing just casual scanning across all disks of VPS instances. Some examples could be: cloud authentication keys, torrc files, specific installed software, SSH private keys, TLS certificates.

Wow, I didn’t know reads deteriorate SSDs. What’s the reason? Is the rate significant?