Setting up RAID and non-raid disk on Z68A-GD55 (G3) motherboard

Hi,
I want to setup two sata III ssd as raid 0 windows 7 boot disk and another standalone sata III 3tb hdd.
Could you please help me if it is possible to mixing raid and sata 3 standalone disk at all. if not what are the other options apart from install a sata 3 pcie controller card.
your help is appreciated.

Since the mainboard only has two SATA III ports, the third SATA III HDD would possibly need a jumper to work in a SATA II port. Otherwise, you would have to go the add-in card route for the third SATA III drive.

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