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Old 30th December 2008
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Originally Posted by phoenix View Post
Block size for CD/DVD is 2K, so to get the best speed/reliability, you should use bs=2048
While that is true.. the block size is 2048 bytes.. the transfer rate from CD's is not 2048 bytes per second.

Specifying a larger block size in dd will increase the speed.
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