User`s guide

Drive Image Professional
Chapter Seven - Software Utilities
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10.(Optional) Type brief comments about your image file in the Image File
Comments field. Comments cannot exceed 300 characters.
11.Click Next. Select the desired compression level.
No Compression is usually the fastest method for creating an image file
and is useful if storage space is not an issue. However, if you are saving
your image file to a busy network drive or to a relatively slow removable
media device, high compression may be faster than no compression since
there is less data to write to the file. Drive Image selects No Compression
by default.
Low compression offers a 40% average compression ratio.
High compression offers a 50% average compression ratio.