Does MBP support RAID 5 (disk utility)

I bought a 2T Cavalry disk array machine with the understanding that I could have it configured to run RAID 5 on my MBP. Now that I have the machine, I have found that it will not work. I have a express card 35 but can't get disk utility to configure my 2T Cavalry machine to RAID 5.
HELP HELP HELP!
Huckster

You didn't say you want this for backup.
And backup only needs some simple, but duplicate backups sets that you rotate and use on alternate backup sessions.
People with a lot of high value data that changes and being edited sometimes go for RAID6.
If you have a drive that you can't afford to go down or lose (audio recording and editing) you can just have a mirror of 3 drives (I am against the idea of using a mirror and stop at two drives).
Any backup should be external and can be simple Firewire or SATA.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7479466&#7479466
I don't think you qualify as needing RAID5 so far. Also, get some experience and testing under your belt of what it is and can be done with RAID0 stripe, or RAID1 mirror first.

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