Which NUCs Support Two M.2 SSDs Internally?

Aside from NUC6i7KYK, are any of the Gen7 products coming out in Q1 of 2017 speculated to support two M.2 SSDs internally?

NUC6i7KYK looks way too expensive to me.   Over $1100 on Amazon with any reasonable configuration.    Do they make this with a much slower quad core CPU?   I don't need this for gaming and the CPU appears to be overkill and is wrecking the price.

That is really a shame.  A NUC6i7KYK type box with a slower quad core CPU would make a great home server.   Another related point is that a slower CPU version of NUC6i7KYK would get us back to the 15W power draw that makes the NUC approach such an economical long-term option.

Since Intel cannot apparently figure this out, do you know of any third party making an NUC-type product that takes two M.2 SSDs internally and connects out to peripherals on either USB 3.1, eSATA, or Thunderbolt 3?    I don't need a lot of CPU power, just quad core of almost any speed.    I need 16 GB and a lot of powerful I/O to disk, both internal and external.

Amy, those product specifications you point to include two systems with one M.2 SSD and two systems with one M.2 SSD and one 2.5" drive that does not use M.2 interface (so much slower).   None of those apparently matches to my requirement, which was for two M.2 SSD drives.

Maybe I should be asking a different question.  Is there a reason I should *not* want to make the M.2 SSD my primary boot device and then mirror that to a software RAID 1 on an equivalent M.2 SSD?

Amy, the boards you are highlighting take one drive M.2 SSD and the other M.2 appears to be for wireless, not for a drive.  This is not the same thing as what is being offered on the Skull Canyon NUC6i7KYK product, which appears to have two M.2 SSD slots.   The problem with Skull Canyon is it consumes too much power at 45 watts.   I really want to find a product that is closer to 20 watts, and I will run several of them in parallel.

I actually did not want to use the built-in software RAID in BIOS, but instead I just want to do software RAID inside Windows directly.   If Windows sees two different devices in the RAID 1 pair, it can optimize I/O much better and will start to do I/O tasks in parallel that it would not if the disks were hidden behind a RAID device driver/BIOS/hardware RAID.

Scott, do you know if Windows 8 or higher has any way to instruct Windows to favor read operations on a specific member of a software RAID 1 pair?   I'm referring to RAID 1 created in Disk Manager, not the software RAID built around the Intel BIOS and associated device driver.

The Veritas Storage Foundation product - which Microsoft licensed to create its own RAID in Windows - definitely does have an option that lets you change the balance of read operations on a RAID.  It was meant for exactly the situation where one member of a RAID 1 pair is a slow large disk that is intended for backup, but can still occasionally service read requests.  It's just you might want 80% of the read I/O to go to the M.2 SSD and only 20% to go to the slower SATA drive.

I want to bump this thread and get an update.   Aside from the one Skull Canyon NUC, is there now any other Intel NUC that takes TWO Type M M.2 NVMe SSDs internally?   Ideally, I want a product with a lower power draw than the Skull Canyon.  

If no product has been released yet, is there even a pre-announcement for a product that will be out by end of year that has the two M.2 NVMe SSDs?

My main requirements behind this request are 1) extremely high disk performance compared to a normal SATA drive and 2) the ability to have a real-time backup and disk mirror in Windows for the critical system device.   Given that all SSDs eventually do fail, having some resilience by mirroring the drives is desirable.