$ sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null bs=1M [sudo] password for marcin: dd: error reading ‘/dev/sdb’: Input/output error 101+1 records in 101+1 records out 106168320 bytes (106 MB) copied, 31,6567 s, 3,4 MB/s marcin@marcin ~ $ sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null bs=4K dd: error reading ‘/dev/sdb’: Input/output error 25936+0 records in 25936+0 records out 106233856 bytes (106 MB) copied, 18,3356 s, 5,8 MB/s