The black USB 3.0/eSATA to SATA Docking Station for 2.5"/3.5" HDD from StarTech provides quick and easy access to a 2.5"/3.5" SATA HDD or SSD through either eSATA or USB connectivity, making it compatible with almost any system. It supports large capacity drives (tested with up to 4TB 3.5" and 1TB 2.5" drives), which enables you to enhance your computer's storage/backup capabilities. The hard drive dock offers eSATA or USB 3.0 host connections (3 Gb/s, 5 Gb/s bandwidth respectively), and is backwards compatible with USB 2.0 (up to 480 Mb/s) connections to the host computer. To simplify HDD installation and swapping drives in and out of the dock, this docking station features a top slot-loading design, for easy access.
You can extend the value of this hard drive docking station further with the addition of the StarTech SATA to IDE Hard Drive Adapter (SAT2IDEADP), allowing easy insertion of any 2.5"/3.5" IDE hard drive into a SATA hard drive dock. To ensure compatibility with your computer system, the docking station supports all of the leading operating systems, including Microsoft Windows (8/7/Vista/XP/Server 2008/Server 2003), Apple OS X (10.9/10.8/10.7/10.6), Linux, and Google Chrome OS.Delivers fast access to external storage, while still being backwards compatible with USB 2.0
External SATA (eSATA) interface provides the HDD dock with native SATA II connectivity, freeing up USB ports for other peripherals
Top slot-loading drive dock design supports both 2.5" and 3.5" drives and provides quick and easy access to the data, without having to mount SATA drives into an enclosure or tray
Supports 2.5" and 3.5" form factor SATA hard drives (HDD) and solid state drives (SSD)
SuperSpeed USB 3.0 compliant host interface, with up to 5 Gbps of data bandwidth
SATA II compliant eSATA host interface, with up to 3 Gbps of data bandwidth
Separate power switch and status LED
Compatible with SATA revision I/II/III (1.5/3.0/6.0 Gb/s) drives
Compact, desktop-style form factor
Plug and play and hot-swappable
Allows quick access to drives for imaging
Backup data quickly to an external data archiving
Test or benchmark different hard drives and need to swap between them