Wasn't. SSD's are a joke til they come down to a real price. Over $400 for 120GB.. no thanks.. To go with an SSD less
then the OCZ Vertex Turbo is a waste no matter what.
You will notice that your load times will decrease.
Access times may become longer due to system overhead of having to read from 4 drives.
Personally, I ran RAID0 for years and years, but not any more. Drives have gotten fast enough (though still the slowest part in your system) that I don't believe RAID is that big of a benefit anymore. You can just drop in a ton of cheap memory, and your programs, games, etc don't have to hit the hard drive all the time like they did a few years ago when we had to do with a lot less memory.
It is a lot of storage for the money though, and a LOT of stuff to lose if you break the array. It's your call.