Comment by ProllyInfamous

I made a 16TB external SSD RAID0 using four 4tb SATA drives and a Terramaster external enclosure... for less than $700 [1]

Not as fast as a single nVME in external Acadis enclosure... but it is fast.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/TERRAMASTER-D4-320-External-Drive-Enc... [sold out]