• exscape@kbin.social
    9·
    3 months ago

    Sorry for the nitpick, but you probably mean GB/s (or GiB/s, but I won’t go there). Gbps is gigabits per second, not gigabytes per second.
    Since both are used in different contexts yet they differ by about a factor of 8, not confusing the two is useful.

    • 30p87@feddit.de
      4·
      3 months ago

      I think it is gigabits per second, but to be clear: Whatever dd reports as speed after finishing (or with status=progress)

      • exscape@kbin.social
        3·
        3 months ago

        That’s in bytes. A modern NVMe drive can do about 7 GB/s (more than 10 for PCIe 5.0 drives). Even SATA could handle 5 Gbit/s, though barely.

        • 30p87@feddit.de
          2·
          3 months ago

          Yup, my PCIe NVMe should be readable at 8 GB/s and writeable at 7 GB/s afaik. I can’t reach that speed tho, no matter which bs.