Compaq 8510w, poor SSD performance

Something seems to be limiting my read performance with a SSD installed.  Running Windows 7 (64-bit), with the latest BIOS, Intel Driver INF and SSD Toolbox (for TRIM).  Drive is Intel X25-M G2 80GB, spec-ed at ~250MB/s for sequential writes.  Benchmarks tested include HD Tune, HD Tach, ATTO, Datamarck and DiskMark.  All show around 55MB/s sequential read with W7 resource monitor confirming that throughput.
I have found articles online describing "poor SSD" performance due to either running SATA-I vs. SATA-II or AHCI vs. IDE.  The drive is running IDE (UDMA-5) and SATA-II.  What is described as poor performance is 225MB/s for IDE vs. UHCI and 175MB/s for SATA-I vs. SATA-II.  No where near the performance I see.
I have also run across posts mentioning that the 8510w utilizes a bridge for IDE to SATA.  If this is the case, the bridge could be the culprit.  Any insight would be appreciated.

Hi doasc,
I just re-imaged my 8510w to Windows 7 onto a Kingston SSDNow V Series 128 GB drive.
I was quite silly and did not run HD Tune before enabling the employer mandated McAfee Endpoint Encryption whole disk encryption.
I get 60MB/sec in HD Tune with the disk encrypted - and you are likely quite correct about getting better results without disk encryption enabled and I wish I had tested it that way first.
/dan

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