Enable fast, swappable access to your 2.5in or 3.5in SATA hard drives, through USB (Universal Serial Bus) 3.0. The SATDOCKU3S USB (Universal Serial Bus) 3.0 Hard Drive Docking Station delivers full, instant access to any 2.5in or 3.5in SATA (SATA, SATA II, SATA III) hard drive (HDD) or solid state drive (SSD), without having to mount the drive in a computer or install it in an external enclosure. Large capacity drives (tested with up to 4TB) can be used to greatly enhance your computers storage/backup capabilities. Connected to the host computer through a single USB (Universal Serial Bus) 3.0 Super Speed or USB (Universal Serial Bus) 2.0 connection, the hard drive docking station provides a convenient, plug-&-play storage solution that delivers instant access to the hard drive without requiring a reboot. Relying on the outstanding data throughput support of USB (Universal Serial Bus) 3.0, the HDD docking station is capable of transfer speed up 5 Gbps, making it the quickest way to access data from an external drive. Double the value of this hard drive docking station, using a SATA to IDE hard drive adapter (SAT2IDEADP), which enables you to use any 2.5 or 3.5in IDE hard drive in a SATA hard drive dock slot.