A:AnswerThai device will work for any drive with a SATA connector, some older computers used IDE however most desktops and laptops manufactured in the past 5 years use SATA drives.
A:AnswerYes. It comes with the dock, the USB 3 cable, and the power cable. You need to have a USB 3 port on your system. All you have to do is plug it in to the USB 3, plug it into a power outlet and then plug in your hard drives.
A:AnswerATA drives use parallel processing, while SATA drives use serial processing -- completely different approaches to handling data. ATA drives are also known as IDE. What you want is a device like this one but designed for connecting IDE drives.
A:AnswerI haven't seen a single performance issue and I run dual drives all the time. One of which is my music and video drive (it gets a lot of use). Make sure you plug it into a USB 3 port on your system.
My system: Intel Core i5 3570k 3.4Ghz, ASUS Sabertooth Z77 mobo, 16Gb Ram, Sandisk 500Gb SSD, Windows 10 Pro 64bit.