With M.2 SSDs now being cheaper per TB than SATA SSDs, how comes there is no proper external M.2 SSD enclosure with integrated RAID1 (mirroring)?
Basically, just a simple fast external SSD with automatic mirroring, because I like to have the security that a drive failure doesn’t mean I have to restore 4 TB from my cloud backup, swapping a broken drive is much quicker.
I'm generally surprised about anyone who can sleep with having an external drive that's not automatically mirrored somehow, because all drives eventually break, and something like an external dual-M.2 USB drive with integrated mirroring would be super small and portable, and offer good safety for the data.
I found a total of 1 product that fits this description, but it seems to be a no-name chinese company and this has relatively bad reviews on Amazon, the
“MAIWO NVMe RAID Enclosure 20Gbps USB3.2 GEN2x2, RAID 0/RAID 1/PM/Large, 8TB Capacity Tool Free Aluminum, Dual Bay RAID Enclosure for M.2 NVMe PCIe M-Key 2230/2242/2260/2280mm SSD”.
So that likely is not a good choice.
I have an equivalent of this as a SATA SSD version already from IcyBox (https://icybox.de/product/externe_speicherloesungen/IB-RD2253-C31), and that works well, but it really feels like a waste of performance to still buy SATA SSDs when M.2 NVMe SSDs cost just significantly less per TB, and are way, way faster.