When dealing with normal physical hard disks it doesn't matter. The kernel drivers and write buffers on the drives abstract all that away. There are other devices (raw flash) that don't work without specific block sizes. It should improve speed if you bs=4096 to match the 4k memory pages used on x86 machines.
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