Plextor SSD

Revision                  : 1.01    
Capacity                  : 118.63 GB (127372623872 bytes)
Product ID                : PLEXTOR  PX-128M2S                   

 hdparm -t /dev/sdc

/dev/sdc:
 Timing buffered disk reads:  1196 MB in  3.01 seconds = 397.14 MB/sec

time dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/ssd/testBig count=100000 bs=1000000
100000+0 records in
100000+0 records out
100000000000 bytes (100 GB) copied, 707.387 seconds, 141 MB/s

real    11m47.395s
user    0m0.073s
sys     2m16.411s

time cat /mnt/ssd/testBig > /dev/null

real    5m36.573s
user    0m2.833s
sys     1m12.922s

• test1_all_4k.xls: 64GiB file, 4KiB records
  

• test2_all_512k.xls - I can't explain why some of these numbers are so high. Test run was identical to previous except for record size of 512k this time.
  

OCZ SSD drive

Media                     : SSD
Revision                  : 2.06
Capacity                  : 111.25 GB (119453777920 bytes)
Vendor ID                 : ATA     
Product ID                : OCZ-VERTEX3 MI                          
Serial No.                : OCZ-75620V2R791H84CE
Negotiated Speed          : 6.00 Gbps

hdparm -t /dev/sdc

/dev/sdc:
 Timing buffered disk reads:  1210 MB in  3.00 seconds = 402.91 MB/sec

 time dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/ssd/testBig count=100000 bs=1000000
100000+0 records in
100000+0 records out
100000000000 bytes (100 GB) copied, 254.053 seconds, 394 MB/s

real    4m14.073s
user    0m0.067s
sys     2m18.204s

 time cat /mnt/ssd/testBig > /dev/null

real    3m25.097s
user    0m2.746s
sys     1m11.845s

iozone tests

2 disk RAID-0	1 disk RAID-0
test3_all_4k.xls: 64GiB file, 4KiB records	test5_single_all_4k.xls: 64GiB file, 4KiB records
test4_all_512k.xls: 64GiB file, 512KiB records	test6_single_all_512k.xls: 64GiB file, 512KiB records