Numer of hard drives and what raid to use?

I am currently trying to figure out what setup to go with when I order a Mac Pro, most things are pretty straight forward but I have a question in the Raid/HD setup, I would like to use 4HD's, 2 250g's for OS and applications in Raid 0(striped) and 2 750g's for data/file storage in Raid 1(mirrored), would I need the Raid card, or does the motherboard Raid cover that, would I set it up as two separate Raid utilities, Raid 0, and Raid 1, or does Raid 0+1 cover that, any feedback would be greatly appreciated, thank you in advance.

Software RAID will do what you want. if you want to get fancy then invest in a Highpoint RAID6 or something.

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