Dose w520 msata support 6Gbps SATA III?

Hi everyone, recently I'm ready to install an mSATA SSD on my w520, but I don't know if the mini PCI-E of this machine the SATA-III 6Gbps support, or it may only run a SATA III mSATA SSD SATA II mode. If anyone has tested this before? Thank you.

I don't have the reference at hand, but I'm sure I've read on several forums that the mSATA on the W520 supports sata 2 only, not 3.

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