I would not want to disturb you but...
dd without direct option shows only cache speed - no more. In some configurations, you can get a linear speed without a cache higher than with a cache. In some you will receive hundreds of megabytes per second, with linear performance in units of megabytes. With the direct option (iflag = direct for reading, oflag = direct for writing), dd checks only the linear velocity. Which is absolutely not equal to the maximum speed (if we are talking about a raid on many disks, then a raid in several threads can give more speed than in one), not a real performance. link1 link2
So for correct measurement, we need to do a drop cache before testing.