Solid and neat cable (flat table a little steep) to use my E-Sata port. Go directly to the HDD 3.5 '' format, but for one of my readers / CD / DVD / M-Disc that has not [yet] the specific adapter concocted by engineers Asus for the slip into the Media-bay, I had ordered separately a small connector (also found here at pc-look). This is the standard Slimline SATA, sometimes also called Mini Sata but not to be confused with the Micro Sata ...