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Old 30th December 2010
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What's the problem? you're not specifying a block size.. so dd(1) is reading/write 512 blocks at a time from an unbuffered device.

Try increasing the block size a bit.

I get around 14MB/s on my OpenBSD system with a blocksize of 64k.
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