Sata 2 SSD Transfer rates

[Faithh]

What.
Almost all motherboards today have at least one PCI-e 1x slot. Some have four.

While I would definitely agree with you on not getting that card, the reasons you wrote appear confusing to me.

He meant PCI express 2.0 x1. He has a PCI Express 1.0 x1 slot.

I looked over this, so I'm sorry. The SSD will still be limited to 250MB/s max.

That card I linked has a Asmedia ASM1061 chipset which is just also on the z77 motherboards. Just right above the 2 intel ports on Asus.

Never heard about that 30 seconds though for the POST.

[Biernot]

Never heard about that 30 seconds though for the POST.

Might not be 30 seconds, but it will definitely take a lot of time. (depends on the controller chip etc.)
To take an educated guess, i would expect ~10-15 seconds added boot time.

[pansertjald]

Never use crystaldiskmark to test the speed of a SSD disk.

allways use AS-SSD-Benchmark or atto disk bench when you want to test the speed of your SSD disk. i would go with atto

only use crystaldiskmark when you want to test the speed of your normal disk