How fast is SATA controller in Portege R830?

Hi,
I recently started to look for a SSD drive to improve my laptop's performance.
How fast is SATA controller in R830 - 3 or 6Gbps?
Is there any list of compatible devices?
Thanks!
R.

I just finally found some extra money I purchased OCZ Agility 3 240GB SSD.
And frankly speaking I'm a little disappointed.
Althoguh it's nice to boot up in 10-12s, I hardly see improvements in speed and access time.
I did all the tricks to improve SSD performance (installed latest Intel Rapid Storage drivers, disabled windows search, prefetch and defrag) and so far I see just a small differences in startup of Outlook and Live Mail programs. IE and other Office apps start almost in the same time - even Skype seems to be same responsive as with HDD.
My final thoughts are:
1. Toshiba *did really bad thing* not utilizing SATA III ports in Intel's controller (QM67 offers by default 3 and 6Gbps interfaces). I wouldn't be surprised with such thing in cheap Satellite models ... but hey guys - it's Portege! It should be no-compromise business laptop! Why performance of my SSD has to be limited to its 50-60%?!
2. Default Hitachi 500Gig HDD is not that bad - I would even it's not much worse than SSD (really!)
3. I'm happy that I didn't bought top-end model from Intel/Samsung/Crucial - I'd be even more disappointed.
For benchark fans (R/W speeds from AS-SSD):
Seq: ~210/~220-230MB/s
4k: 15-18/50MB/s
4k-64Thrd: 130-150/200-220MB/s
Acc.time: 0,14/0,33ms
Score: 165/282
Windows 7 SP1 64-bit - clean install
If you have any ideas how to get more power out of it, it'd be very grateful.

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You're very welcome, Nick.
The forum has a thing called Kudos, and you can click on the little white star under a person's user name, and they will get one kudo point under any reply they gave that was helpful.
I gave you one just to show you how it is done (and to say thanks for your appreciation).
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