The Sabrent External Lay-Flat Docking Station is designed to connect your computer to a 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch SATA hard drive up to 8 TB in size. Thanks to its plug-and-play capabilities, your computer will automatically recognize all types of devices. The docking station is backwards compatible with USB 1.1 and 2.0. It supports a transfer rate of up to 5 Gb/s with a USB 3.0 port and up to 480 Mb/s with a USB 2.0 port. Compatible operating systems include Mac OS X and Windows XP or later.