Tag historian data pre-processing experiences

Hey all,

Was wondering if anyone has had any experience with using the tag historians pre-processed partitions and whether or not that has had any impact or value.

In my own experience, with a window size of 60s, it has more than doubled the space requirements.
For one partition, the raw table is 44GB, and the pre-processed partition is 66GB.
On another partition, the raw is 39GB, and the pre-processed is 55GB.

In terms of performance though, the queries seem slightly faster?
I can query 3 tags for 3 months of data in less than 5 minutes.
Not sure how best to quantify and measure that.

So currently I'm tossing up whether I want to implement my own post-processing so users can quickly query months / years at a time.

What have your experiences been?