On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Paolo Campegiani <[email protected]
> wrote:

> > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=8192
> > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=8192
>
> Isn't 8192 a small value for a block write operation?
>

Yes it probably is.  I did some tests years ago to find an optimal
blocksize but didn't remember where it was fastest.  It is however
faster than the default of I believe 1K.

--Donald
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