Also interested in small file size of byte size 1


#### WRITE ####
srs:/home/icepick# time dd if=/dev/zero of=./testfile bs=1 count=655360
655360+0 records in
655360+0 records out
655360 bytes (655 kB) copied, 2.19343 s, 299 kB/s

real 0m2.196s
user 0m0.230s
sys 0m1.960s
srs:/home/icepick# time dd if=./testfile of=/dev/null bs=1 count=655360

#### READ ####
655360+0 records in
655360+0 records out
655360 bytes (655 kB) copied, 1.48815 s, 440 kB/s

real 0m1.490s
user 0m0.220s
sys 0m1.260s
srs:/home/icepick#