Quote Originally Posted by Anvil View Post
Databases takes "compression" to the extreme as most are highly compressible, I might end up Endurance testing the Force 3 I've still got using the database setting as it would make sense for my kind of usage.
Unless you want ASU to cater to Enterprise users, it would be a bad idea to base the defaults on database writes, since very few non-Enterprise users have a lot of database writes to their SSDs.

For typical non-Enterprise users, the best thing to use for a benchmark to correspond to day-to-day usage is 100% incompressible / random data. That should be the default. If you start arbitrarily choosing "randomness" of less than 100%, then your benchmark will be arbitrary and not suitable for objective comparisons. There is a reason why the SNIA tests specify random data. It is fine to have a choice, but the default should be 100% incompressible.