diff --git a/src/borg/testsuite/compress.py b/src/borg/testsuite/compress.py
index 6a651b21c..b7029e961 100644
--- a/src/borg/testsuite/compress.py
+++ b/src/borg/testsuite/compress.py
@@ -45,9 +45,11 @@ def test_lz4():
 
 def test_lz4_buffer_allocation():
     # test with a rather huge data object to see if buffer allocation / resizing works
-    data = os.urandom(50 * 2**20)  # 50MiB incompressible data
+    data = os.urandom(5 * 2**20) * 10  # 50MiB badly compressible data
+    assert len(data) == 50 * 2**20
     c = get_compressor(name='lz4')
     cdata = c.compress(data)
+    assert len(cdata) > len(data)
     assert data == c.decompress(cdata)