[KamiNuvini]

Here's mine, with SSD upgrade:

  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, 2.17496 s, 494 MB/s

  hdparm -tT /dev/xvda
  /dev/xvda:
   Timing cached reads:   18560 MB in  1.98 seconds = 9358.78   MB/sec
   Timing buffered disk reads: 2510 MB in  3.00 seconds =   836.61 MB/sec`