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> Well first off I'd tell dd to use a bigger bs like 1m.

I'll second this. I think the default for mos *nixs is 512 byte blocks, 
which is painfully slow. You need to manually specify bs=1M.

It's also possibly the stick is just dying, but try the blocksize first.