dd - deeeee deeeee

I did manage to clone the hard disk using dd. But, it took considerably longer than Ghost.
Using watch, I could check the progress, and was alarmed to see that the transfer speed was 10 MBps. For a SATA2 to SATA2 disk transfer, this is an extremely low value.

A look around the net revealed that the "block" argument could speed things up. Not sure what the default bloxk size is, but read somewhere that setting it to 1 MB would result in quicker transfer. Need to check this out.