Hard drive read speeds

Greetings all,

Can someone point me to some good info on hard drive reading speeds?
More specifically, if software needs to do a great deal of reading from
lots of different files, how would a pair of 7200rpm drives in RAID 0
compare to one 10K rpm drive?

Do any of you use 10K rpm drives in desktop machines? Are they still
really loud?

Thanks,
        Les...
Received on Mon Feb 26 21:05:56 2007