I used to benchmark a lot on an enterprise-grade SSD 10 years ago, and that was already at 2 GB/s. Today, even my laptop's SSD supports multiple GB/s.

But you're right about the contest -- each program was measured five times in a row, and there was enough RAM to fit the entire file into the page cache.

The best time using all 32 cores (64 hyperthreads) on the evaluation machine was 323 milliseconds.