Looking for a bus-powered dual 2.5" RAID1 enclosure

[maratus]

Something like this (bus powered FW800, so it's possible)
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/NewerTech/GM8QM7S20T32/

or this (15mm drive support, not bus powered TB2)
https://www.startech.com/ca/HDD/Enclosures/Thunderbolt-Drive-Enclosure-2-bay~S252SMTB3

What I want:

1) Two 2.5" HDDs up to 15mm
2) Ideally, hardware RAID 0 / RAID 1 controller
3) Bus powered (USB3.1, USB-C PD or Thunderbolt 3 preferred, also Thunderbolt 2 would work)
4) Reliable

Anyone knows if such a thing exists?

 

[matreya]

Anyone knows if such a thing exists?

No such thing exists. While the FW800 unit is possible because FireWire is capable of delivering 40W of power over the FireWire bus. Thunderbolt only delivers 10W.

 

[matreya]

And just a day after I thought there was no solution, OWC announces one 🙂

Here's a RAID 0/1 enclosure for 2 x 2.5 inch drives, bus-powered over USB-C 3.1 Gen2

https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/external-drives/owc-mercury-elite-pro-dual/mini

 

[maratus]

And just a day after I thought there was no solution, OWC announces one 🙂

Here's a RAID 0/1 enclosure for 2 x 2.5 inch drives, bus-powered over USB-C 3.1 Gen2

https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/external-drives/owc-mercury-elite-pro-dual/mini

Hm, that's interesting! But I wasn't excited for long:

2.5" SATA 6Gb/s drives (drive height up to 9.5mm)

Such a shame....

 

[matreya]

You just expect too much.

You can fit 2 x 9.5mm high 2TB drives in it. That should be enough.

 

[maratus]

You just expect too much.

You can fit 2 x 9.5mm high 2TB drives in it. That should be enough.

I need 4TB (or even 5TB with Seagate ST5000LM000) of effective capacity with RAID1, so 15mm drives are my only options.