How do I create a bootable system partition in RAID0?

Hello!
So I have these two OCZ technology SSD drives, each 80 GB big, and I guessed the system would flow and start quite smoothly if I arranged them in RAID0.
Only one problem: The Mid 2010-Mac Pro won´t boot from the array so all the time I´m thrown back to the Time Machine-backup and this is where I am right now! These drives are supposed to support RAID and Mac OS. Can anyone tell me what´s the problem? I don´t have a separate RAID card.
Any help would be honestly appreciated...

OCZ Internal SSD 80GB Vertex 2 Series SATA II 2.5 is the name of the drive.
Q: Did you get them working on their own?
A: I´m trying to install 10.7 on the untested drive right now.
Install on a standard drive? My intention was to get a bootable SSD array with significant read/write-speed. Each of those drives read approximately 275 MB/s and there is only SATA-II in my Mac Pro so to get "speed" I figured a RAID0 with two of those drives could satisfy my unnecessary need for speed .
The RAID was created in disk tools and the system is recognised there containing 10.8.2 when chosen as start disk. It is however not available at boot time, so no matter if I choose Macintosh HD as boot drive, Time Machine is loaded at boot. The drives are seated in bay 2 and bay 3 and from a working Time Machine backup.
For the moment I´ve called AppleCare and I´ve been instructed to try to install 10.7.? on the untested drive as the way it happens when the system is started from the Time Machine.
This is being written on my laptop meanwhile.
The adapter is a 2.5 to 3.5 inch converter bracket from OWC called AdaptaDrive(for the new drive).
The other adapter performs the same, but I don´t know what brand it is, as I purchased it here in Sweden from a smaller shop.
I haven´t figured out if I created the array in the proper way yet.
Thanks for your reply

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