That's because of this, Compgeke:

http://www.fccps.cz/download/adv/frr/cf.html

Though Apple IDE is brain dead on many levels, it does try to cheat in access DMA in the drive. Also, like I stated, these tests tend to use short blocks of data and SSDs, especially CFs, want large data blocks.

My tests is this: How fast does it boot from Happy Mac to Desktop, how fast does it load an app, how fast does it load a large file, how fast does it take to save that file, how fast does it quit the app, and how fast it shuts down. Using a ThinkPad 190E (a 20 year old MMX 120MHz Pentium (1) Laptop loading Win 98, MS Word, it takes seconds. 12 seconds to boot - DAMN! It is faster than my i5 PC and Laptop! OSX on a G3 Dual USB takes 30 seconds, and System 7.6 on a 1400 takes 25 second. Though there is a long pause in the System 7.6 1400 from "Welcome to Macintosh" to the first extension loading up; I figure that without that pause the 1400 could boot in 15 seconds or less. Using a hard drive on these systems then the numbers of wait is in the minutes.

But I'm glad to see those numbers.