[fragmede]

bs=1 is a recipe for waiting far longer than you have to because of the overhead of the system calls. Better bs=N count=1

[__david__]

That’s also not great if you’re trying to make a 10 gigabyte file. In that case, use bs=1M and count=SizeInMB.

[marcosdumay]

Modern computers are crazily overengineered...

Most current desktops (smaller than your usual server) won't have any problem with the GP's command. Yours is still better, of course.