SUGGESTIONS If compression speed is your number one priority and you have large amounts of memory to spare, then increasing the output buffer size (-bo) to a very large size (256K+) will dramatically down on disk usage. On the other hand, if you have a low memory situation, set the output buffer size to a small value, such as 8K. You should also set the work directory to something other than the default, which is "T:", since T: is generally assigned to "RAM:".