Set up RAID 0 on new Mac Pro

I should have the machine by Friday, Nov 2. Two 500g drives. Apparently, Apple won't be configuring the RAID 0 (mirroring) for me. Are there instructions online that I can read now so I know what I'm getting into before hand?
Also, in the event of a drive failure, should the system just keep on chugging along, just giving me a message that one drive has failed? On my Windows system, that's what is supposed to happen. But having had two failures over the years, I only got the friendly helpful message once. The other time, the entire system shut down, even though only one drive failed. What should I expect with the Mac Pro?
Thanks!

Thanks to both. And thanks for pointing out my error. It's mirroring that's important to me, not the added speed from striping. I'm hoping that a drive failure won't cause the machine to stop "dead in its tracks", as I've had happen before, even on a high end Windows machine with RAID 1 enabled via an Adaptec RAID card.
What still isn't clear to me is whether with Apple's RAID 1 the system will continue functioning if one drive fails, or if instead I'll have some work to do to get back up and running.
The reason for my question is that too many times in the past I've bought into something that turns out not to be quite what I expected. And since Apple sells a separate RAID card for the Mac Pro, I'm wondering if the built in RAID function, without the add-on $1,000 card, will allow the system to keep working when one drive fails in a mirrored setup.
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