----- READ ----- $ dd if=test.garbage bs=4096 | pv > /dev/null 40960000000 bytes (41 GB, 38 GiB) copied, 226.184 s, 181 MB/s $ dd if=test.garbage bs=4096 | pv > /dev/null 40960000000 bytes (41 GB, 38 GiB) copied, 233.655 s, 175 MB/s ----- WRITE ----- $ dd if=/dev/zero bs=4096 count=10000000 | pv > test.garbage 40960000000 bytes (41 GB, 38 GiB) copied, 127.142 s, 322 MB/s $ dd if=/dev/urandom bs=4096 count=10000000 | pv > test.garbage 40960000000 bytes (41 GB, 38 GiB) copied, 245.921 s, 167 MB/s ----- DEV ----- $ dd if=/dev/zero bs=4096 count=10000000 | pv > /dev/null 40960000000 bytes (41 GB, 38 GiB) copied, 14.8122 s, 2.8 GB/s $ dd if=/dev/urandom bs=4096 count=10000000 | pv > /dev/null 40960000000 bytes (41 GB, 38 GiB) copied, 212.95 s, 192 MB/s