C30 mSATA port: SATA2 or SATA3?

Hi All,
I have installed a Crucial M500 480GB SATA 6Gbps mSATA Internal SSD on my Thinkstation C30.
However Intel Rapid Storage Technology (12.9.0.1001) is reporting that the SATA transfer rate is 3Gb/s:
CrystalDiskInfo 6.0.1 is reporting "SATA/300 | SATA/600":
So is the mSATA port SATA2 or SATA3?
I have looked at every Lenovo C30 PDF / specs that I could find and could not find the information. Although a lot of literature says you can buy a 6Gbs mSATA SSD for the C30.
I suspect it is only SATA2.
But I am hoping that perhaps it is a BIOS setting.
To Lenovo. You are a computer company. Be precise on your technical specifications!
This sort of BASIC information should be easy to fin on your specs and included in every spec. Look at all the confusion surrounding mSATA on your forums and elsewhere.
(I assumed it woud support 6Gbps as you sell 6Gbps mSATA SSDs. If you do not support 6Gbps you should be advertising these mSATA SSDs as 3Gbps as that is the speed they wilkl work at. That is misleading advertising.)
It is PATHETIC that your ThinkStation Hardware Maintenance Manual on pages 78-79 labels all SATA ports as "SATA port x" as opposed to "SATA2 port x" or "SATA3 port x".
How hard can it be for a technology company to write something technicallt accurate???

The mSATA slots on C/D30 are SATA AHCI gen2 ports.  Patsburg only offers 2 gen3 at most, and those are routed to standard SATA connectors.  Everything else attached to Patsburg, including mSATA, are gen2 as a result.
As mSATA wasn't officially supported at launch, many of the spec documents did not include specific information on that port.

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