[CentOS] new ssd to play with

I grabbed a new SSD M4-CT064M4SSD2 from Crucial.

I am disappointed. I stuck the unit in an Atom machine (zotac) with CentOS 6 on the disk. It really doesn't "feel" faster than the previous 5400 RPM drive that was in it.

The SSD is giving me (in the zotac running centos 6): hdparm -t /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing buffered disk reads: 298 MB in 3.00 seconds = 99.30 MB/sec

The Samsung 5400 RPM disk (in the zotac running Centos 6): hdparm -t /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing buffered disk reads: 196 MB in 3.01 seconds = 65.02 MB/sec

I'm not supper impressed at all. Sure the numbers say its "slightly" better but I don't "feel" it. I was expecting like really noticeable change in application load time or something - but not really.

Just wondering... Is there something that has to be done to take advantage of the SSD performance?

Thanks,

jerry