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dd is not a benchmark
dd was never a reasonable benchmark, albeit people were using this tools as one. Lisa Noordergraaf wrote an interesting article explaining why dd is an especially bad choice for benchmarking modern storage like SSDs: Pitfalls of Benchmarking Flash with dd(1M):