[GTALUG] Re: block size for dd -- no difference

On 9/2/25 22:40, William Park via Talk wrote:

No difference.  All did 117MB/s.

I suspect a lot of this sort of thing was developed back when hardware was much slower and less capable.  DD was also intended to be used with tape where you would have to consider block size.  The old 9 track tape drives didn't have a file system, just blocks of data.