The Kolink external 25-inch drive enclosure provides a mobile home for both mechanical hard drives & flash-based SSDs up to 9mm in height The black external case is made from brushed aluminum & therefore fells & looks of high quality The installation of a hard drive in the Kolink housing is very simple by hand & only requires a screwdriver which is included with the delivery The integrated SATA interface supports the proven SATA 3G standard whose realistic achievable bandwidth is a maximum of 300 MB s (3 Gbit s) which is more than adequate for conventional hard drives The enclosure supports volumes up to 3TB in capacity Although even the fastest notebook HDDs can only achieve just over 120 MB s as the transfer rate they are slowed down considerably by the classic USB (Universal Serial Bus) 20 standard so that Kolink&s external housing here relies on a current USB (Universal Serial Bus) 30 port with a theoretical data rate of 640 MB s (5 Gbit s) familiar This even high-performance solid-state drives can perform a high performance that trumps any hard drive The connection between the external drive & a PC laptop or other device via a corresponding USB (Universal Serial Bus) 30 cable from Micro-USB (Universal Serial Bus)-to-USB which is also supplied with a black leather case Thanks to the small size the simple but elegant style the external Kolink housing is a practical companion that you are always happy to present anywhere whether on a business trip on vacation or at LAN parties Technical Details- Material Aluminum- Colour Black- Drive (optional) 1x 25-inch SSD HDD- Maximum height 9 mm- Maximum capacity 3 TB- Supported standard SATA 3G- Connection USB (Universal Serial Bus) 30- Accessories USB (Universal Serial Bus) 30 cable screwdriver protective cover- Compatibility Windows 10 8 7 Vista XP; Mac OS X V105 or higher