@John-Nomikos , 1.4 GB/s is certainly impossible for SD card write speed, so there is definitely some trickery going on here. Because VOXL2 has a lot of RAM, the cache can be substantial, but I thought that sync command would solve that issue, but apparently not.
In case of writing on top of an existing file, i believe this is a bad test case because as you are changing contents of an existing file (overwriting on top of existing data), the file system needs to be updated to remove references to old data and i think it can be a bit tricky in case of these unstructured overwriting with various block sizes, etc - so this is probably why that process is slower.
If you find a reliable way of testing the SD card write speed in the SD card slot, please let us know! I will play around with it as well.
Alex