Using the ASUS P7P55D Premium motherboard with SATA/6Gbps technology,
I setup the system using 6 or 7 SSDs in RAID-0.
Not including the faster Samsung SSD, which is being utilized on one of the SATA/6Gbps ports as a boot/OS drive.
The system has surpassed 700 MB/sec in disk reads and 500 MB/sec in disk writes (albeit in slightly different setup/configuration).

Asymmetrical/Software RAID:


Onboard Hardware RAID: