[dmuth]

That's interesting about the blocksize. I was never impacted by that because I mostly use dd for writing large files, and a large block size always made more sense to me. For example, if I wanted to test writing a 1 GB file to a flash drive, I'd do something like:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/test.data bs=1M count=1024

Overall, a very informative article though!