diff --git a/src/lmdb-js.h b/src/lmdb-js.h
index 713aa17dc..65dc39b25 100644
--- a/src/lmdb-js.h
+++ b/src/lmdb-js.h
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 using namespace Napi;
 
 // set the threshold of when to use shared buffers (for uncompressed entries larger than this value)
-const size_t SHARED_BUFFER_THRESHOLD = 0x4000;
+const size_t SHARED_BUFFER_THRESHOLD = 0x1000000;
 const uint32_t SPECIAL_WRITE = 0x10101;
 const uint32_t REPLACE_WITH_TIMESTAMP_FLAG = 0x1000000;
 const uint32_t REPLACE_WITH_TIMESTAMP = 0x1010101;