Just ran this on my 1GB droplet at Digital Ocean: $ dd bs=1M count=1024 if=/dev/zero of=test conv=fdatasync 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 1073741824 byt

Just ran this on my 1GB droplet at Digital Ocean: $ dd bs=1M count=1024 if=/dev/zero of=test conv=fdatasync 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 5.83509 s, 184 MB/s