They used slow SSD's (Score 1)

They weren't using the fastest sata SSD's readily available, so I'm not too surprised by the results. There's an SSD on newegg from OCZ that can do 100MB/s read and 80MB/s write. Also, you can easily find MTRON 2.5" sata drives that can do 120MB/s read 90MB/s write. All similarly or better priced.