Newer Technology's popular universal drive adapter, a driverless connector with ports for ATA (5.25/3.5 and 2.5 inch versions) and SATA (standard or SSD) drives to plug into a USB external drive without a housing, has now been updated to feature a USB3 connector allowing potential speeds of up to 500 megabytes/second and which is backward compatible with USB2. The adapter works on any standard-sized ATA or SATA hard drive, SSD, optical or removable drive from any manufacturer, works with any Mac or Mac OS X system from 8.6 on up (also supports all versions of Windows)