mint-xfce-ssd VirtualBox 4.3.20 testing on LinuxMint 17.1 via the Phoronix Test Suite. hdparm-read-ssd-sda: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo P8700 @ 2.50GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: Oracle VirtualBox v1.2, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1024MB, Disk: 13GB VBOX HDD, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Intel 82801AA AC 97 Audio, Monitor: VBOX monitor, Network: Intel 82540EM Gigabit OS: LinuxMint 17.1, Kernel: 3.13.0-37-generic (i686), Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: modesetting 0.8.1, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 10.1.3 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x800, System Layer: VirtualBox 4.3.20 hdparm Timed Disk Reads Disk To Read: /dev/sda MB/s > Higher Is Better hdparm-read-ssd-sda . 186.46 |=================================================