Use your internal SATA drives without cracking open your computer case with this USB 3.0 Docking station from Monoprice. The docking station mounts a standard internal 2.5" Or 3.5" Hard drive and connects to your pc with a USB 3.0 Connection for maximum speed up to 5 GB/sec. It also operates as a 2-port USB 2.0 Hub and a memory card reader supporting a wide variety of memory card formats (see specifications page for a complete list). It supports SATA I and ii drivers with transfer rates up to the maximum 3 GB/sec supported by SATA ii. It also is backwards compatible with USB 2.0 And USB 1.1 Standards in case you don't have a USB 3.0 Connection on all your pcs yet. Features: super speed USB 3.0 Data transfer rate up to 5 GB/s backwards compatible with USB 2.0 And USB 1.1 Compatible with SATA I and ii hard drives works with 2.5" And 3.5" Internal hard drives supports hard drives up to 2tb size 2-port USB 2.0 Hub multi-format flash card reader/writer works with windows 95 and newer mac 9.x And newer and Linux supports both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of windows XP and newer support files: user's manual (Nov 2 2011) apple mac and OSX are registered trademarks of apple Inc.