I took the plunge and got the Aikito ThunderQuad2 and installed a pair of Samsung 850 256GB SSDs. Total cost < $500. It was trivial to set up in RAID 0 on my Mac once I found these instructions:
https://www.tekrevue.com/tip/create-raid-el-capitan/
I reinstalled HW using the same installed, choose custom, and moved my internal files dir to a the new drive. The install was VERY slow, so I let it run overnight, but the next AM everything was perfect. 12 minutes to load Goerlitz surround was now 45-50 seconds!!!