[MACOS] Command "dd"
1.Unmount the Volume diskutil list ... sudo diskutil umount /Volumes/NO\ NAME/ 2.For OS X, use /dev/ r disk2. For some reason rdisk is faster than disk. I believe it has to do with buffers. Also in general using the bs flag with dd helps with speed. sudo dd if=xxx.usb of=/dev/rdisk2 bs=1048576 or sudo dd if=xxx.usb of=/dev/rdisk2 bs=1m the units must be in lower case letters (1m). or conv=sync (optional) sudo dd if=xxx.usb of=/dev/rdisk2 bs=1m conv=sync 3.After the dd command finishes, eject the usbstick: sudo diskutil eject /dev/disk2