@tnar idk if this matters or is relevant...
I had dual 20tb hard drives mirrored with Exfat format with lots of content.... the content files were showing much much larger sizes on that hard drive than they did on my NTFS drives.
I moved it all to dual NTFS drives and the size went way down more compact.
Apparently its mainly worse if theres tons of small files. They have 'padding' or whatever that goes into it. Maybe its something like that?
And you can see the actual amount of data transferred with the download on your local client... is that different than the site data?
So for example if the servers are Exfat they would see a larger size on disk etc.
Or how AI sees it...
