Interesting article for those with money to burn and want throughput to kill:
http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTY1OCw0LCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==Excerpt
The Bottom Line
In our brief overview of RAID scaling under Windows 7 we showed you the limit that the popular ICH10R Southbridge places and yours PC’s drive throughput. With SSDs continuing to drop in price the likelihood that people will string together four inexpensive, small drives in RAID-0 is increasing.