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[–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

For me, I only got to 5 Gbps or so on my NVMe using dd and fine tuning bs=. In second place there was steam with ~3 Gbps. The same thing with my 1 Gbps USB Stick. Even though the time I saved by more speed is more than made up by the time it took me to fine tune.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Sorry for the nitpick, but you probably mean GB/s (or GiB/s, but I won't go there). Gbps is gigabits per second, not gigabytes per second.
    Since both are used in different contexts yet they differ by about a factor of 8, not confusing the two is useful.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I think it is gigabits per second, but to be clear: Whatever dd reports as speed after finishing (or with status=progress)

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