StarTech.com USB to SATA External Hard Drive Docking Station for 2.5 or 3.5-Inch HDD USB 2.0 External Hard Drive Enclosure - SATADOCKU2 (Black)

StarTech.com USB to SATA External Hard Drive Docking Station for 2.5 or 3.5-Inch HDD USB 2.0 External Hard Drive Enclosure - SATADOCKU2 (Black) Review

StarTech.com USB to SATA External Hard Drive Docking Station for 2.5 or 3.5-Inch HDD USB 2.0 External Hard Drive Enclosure - SATADOCKU2 (Black) Feature

• Access either 2.5" or 3.5" SATA drives from a single drive dock over USB 2.0
• Backed by a StarTech.com 1 year warranty and free lifetime technical support
• Top slot loading design with drive door
• Power/Activity LED indicator
• High Speed USB 2.0 compliant host interface, with support for transfer rates up to 480 Mbps
• Compatible with SATA revision 1/2/3 (1.5/3.0/6.0 Gbps) drives
• Plug-and-Play and Hot-Swap compatible
• Supports 2.5" or 3.5" form factor hard drives (HDD) and solid state drives (SSD)

This external hard drive dock adapter functions as a SATA HDD docking station - providing full, instant access to any 2.5in or 3.5in SATA (SATA, SATA II, SATA III) hard drive or solid state drive - without having to mount the hard drive in a computer or install it in an enclosure! Simply connect the hard drive dock to a host computer through USB 2.0, then insert a SATA hard drive into the dock whenever needed. To uninstall or swap the hard drive, just remove it from the dock! The USB to SATA External HDD Dock Adapter supports plug and play hard drive installation on most operating systems, and offers data transfer speeds of up to 480Mbps - providing a convenient alternative to external hard drive enclosures and saving the time needed to prepare the drive for conventional installation. 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.