I would agree with Edi and recommend TIFF. It's easy to move around and
deal with, and is the fastest of the raster formats. (unless something
new has come up?)
I would also agree with Mark: a tileindex is for mosaicing many TIFFs,
and if your result is 1 single TIFF the tileindex is unnecessary.
Edi's recommendation about a "internal tile" is VERY important. It costs
slightly more disk space, but makes a tremendous improvement in the
random access within the TIFF's extent. The overviews accomplish a
similar performance gain, but for views in which the TIFF's extent is
only a subset of what's showing on the map.
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