Is there such a thing as a fanless usb raid1 enclosure for 2.5" drives?

BigEejit

I have recently had to get a new router and it can take a usb drive plugged in and share it on the network (WRT610N). It just happens that I have two 120GB 2.5" sata drives lying around the place and I am wondering if I could get a nice little raid1 enclosure that would hopefully be fanless that it would be a nice secure and quiet way of backing stuff up....

I was previously going to get my htpc to do something like this but found out (too late) that when it works, its great, however when one of the two identical disks faulted that it was nigh on impossible to get it to sync again..... and also the bootable media that comes with Acronis just could not see the raided disks at all and so I could not use the raid disks in the computer to back up the system disk.... *sigh*

But anyway, usb raid1 fanless enclosure for 2.5" disks ... anyone know where I may purchase one of these wee beasties?

BostonB

No idea. Not what you are looking for but...

http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=11038

I've had this problem with smaller raids before. So unless you need the performance I'd just use one drive that synchs to the other (not using raid).

You could mount 2.5 drives in a 3.5 enclosure. Some of them are fanless.

BigEejit

I was in this situation before and forgot to do a copy and thought i had lost a load of photos, luckily they were still on the cameras.... So I'd really like something with raid-1 built in, save me a few heart attacks.

I have seen a nice handy ssata only one so surely there is a usb one (i.e. one sata in and 2 sata out)

I also saw http://shop.coworldcs.com/sharedisk-fanless-series/sharedisk-gigabit-enclosure-3.html which is almost exactly what i wanted, but the prie is just eye watering (549 eurons for 500GB or mirrored data - ouch)

BigEejit

Aha ... found what I was looking for :
http://www.digitalpromo.co.uk/acard-ars2212-external-usb-to-dual-25-sata-hd-mini-mirror-smart-enclosure-p-3433.html