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watch --interval 5 killall -USR1 dd
dd if=/dev/sda bs=$(hdparm -i /dev/sda | grep BuffSize | cut -d ' ' -f 3 | tr [:lower:] [:upper:] | tr -d BUFFSIZE=,) conv=noerror | dd of=image.dd conv=noerror
time (dd if=/dev/zero of=zerofile bs=1M count=500;sync);rm zerofile