Oh good! I hope it's fixed soon, I just checked right now and it's still more or less the same:
dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 84.3402 s, 12.7 MB/s
CPU model : Genuine Intel(R) CPU @ 2.00GHz...