Please check whether write cache is enabled in the drive also check whether NCQ is enabled or not.
About caches please note quote from my e-mail below. Changing NCQ enabled/disabled had no effect either.
6) It is not a caching issue (controller/disk caches were off during testing, but even putting them on had minor impact on the results)
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