Take the blazing speed of Serial ATA outside your case with an external slot plate from StarTech.com. The ESATAPLATE2 adds external data support to any existing Serial ATA controller. This product is designed to take advantage of the increased data integrity provided by external hard drives or RAID devices that support ESATA connections. Youll get up to 300 MBytes/sec of reliable data transfer for your Serial ATA peripherals like external storage devices.