JEYI 586R: External SSD enclosure supports RAID configurations and is actively cooled

The JEYI 586R is a new external enclosure for SSDs, namely, M.2 SSDs, but only in the typicial M.2 2280 format. Other SSDs, such as the M.2 2230, M.2 2242 and M.2 2260 formats, cannot be installed. Nothing dramatic, but it does limit the choice of SSDs.

Compact and powerful SSDs can produce a lot of waste heat. To prevent throttling, the JEYI 586R comes with an appropriate cooling solution that consists of a user-controllable fan and aluminum housing. The latter is intended to be able to passively dissipate waste heat, for which cooling fins are also present.

Various RAID modes are supported: the two drives can be set up in RAID 1 and RAID 0 mode or as JBOD. You can switch between the individual modes with a single button. Buyers should note that this is a hardware RAID, meaning that if the RAID controller fails, access to the data may be lost.

A RAID system can also be used for PC acceleration, but with the JEYI 586R the bottleneck is likely to be the connection to the PC. This is done via USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 with a data transfer rate of up to 20 GBit/s, which corresponds to 2.5 GByte per second - such a speed is already supplied individually by many M.2 2280 SSDs.

The enclosure is now available for direct import at a price of $62.99, plus shipping costs.

A possible alternative: Buy the ISHEEP RAID enclosure at Amazon.