Flash Drive Speed Test?

Any one that has a new MBA, could any one try the AJA disk speed test application on it to see what the drive read and write speeds are?
Cheers

Running QuickBench's small random test, I average the 4K, 8K, 16K, 32K, 64K, 128K, 256K, 512K, and 1024K random reads and writes.
RESULTS for the 128G Flash Storage on the 11" MacBook Air:
Random Read Avg = 96 MB/Sec
Random Write Avg = 94 MB/Sec
RESULTS for the 256G Flash Storage on the 13" MacBook Air:
Random Read Avg = 96 MB/Sec
Random Write Avg = 93 MB/Sec
RESULTS for other drives in a MacBook Pro:
The Seagate Momentus 7200.4 notebook HDD = 17MB/s READ, 22MB/s WRITE
The OWC Mercury Extreme SSD = 149MB/s READ, 139MB/s WRITE
The Apple SSD = 100MB/s READ, 88MB/s WRITE.
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