If you get the same 40MB/s writing to the array with or without turbo write, and to an SSD cache pool, the problem is likely lan related, or on the source computer.
Also, regarding the original question, the disks on the omboard SATA ports are correctly linking at 3Gbps, the Seagate on the LSI is also linking at 3Gbps, only the WDs are linking at 1.5Gbps, so it's a controller or device issue/compatibility, make sure the LSI is running the latest firmware, but note that for those disks it won't make much difference since their max read/write speed is around 140/150MB/s.