I wonder if I accidentally somehow ended up with a usb2 connection instead of usb3 and that's actually the source of the slowness of this operation
@cwebber I've had somewhat better luck with pv and writing media like that. Partly because getting the right block size on modern media is a bit of a pain.
@lopsigon Cubism and Brutalism in disk drives. ;)
@craigmaloney this suddenly has me wondering about post-modern media
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