Hello! I'm the author of this article. Sorry for the confusion: dd is still a very useful tool for copying disks. The point is that you should not feel like y

Hello! I'm the author of this article. Sorry for the confusion: dd is still a very useful tool for copying disks. The point is that you should not feel like you have to shoehorn dd into any command dealing with disks, because only dd is somehow "raw" or "low level" enough to access them. For example, if you have a command like this: pv file1 | gzip | ssh host "gzip -d > file2" and you want to make it work with disks, just replace file1 and file2 with /dev/yourdisks and it's fine.