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Old 13th June 2011
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The dd examples given at the top of this thread are using cooked devices, rather than raw. This may have an impact in FBSD, skewing the results.

(I don't know about FBSD, but it has a HUGE impact in OBSD, where raw devices should always be used when device nodes are used with dd.)
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