Works With 2.5-inch Drives. While we’re the StarTech USB 3.0 SSD Drive Adapter Cable for downloading video from SSDs onto your computer, it can also access traditional spinning 2.5-inch hard drives. The StarTech has support for SATA I, II, and III speeds (1.5 Gbps, 3 Gbps, 6 Gbps) and works with both PCs and Macs.

Bus Powered. The StarTech USB 3.0 is just an adapter cable. It doesn’t provide its own power to the drive and instead draws from the computer’s USB port.

USAP Speed. USB Attached SCSI Protocol gives you high-performance data transfer with 40% faster write speeds and 70% faster read speeds than traditional USB 3.0.