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		renang on Nov 19, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DigitalOcean Sucks. Use DigitalOcean `1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 3.84315 s, 279 MB/s` I was expecting it too be faster, actually. I get over 300 MB/s on a VPS with HDD at the company I work at. [1] [1] https://true.nl

joosters on Nov 19, 2013 [–]

The dd command is copying from /dev/zero

I wouldn't entirely trust any disk benchmark writing empty files, you might be running into some FS optimisations there.

And 300MB/s on a single spinning disk? No chance!

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