RAID 0 Help, PLEASE.

[sublimaze69]

Hello everyone. I have two 320GB Internal HD's that are doing nothing, so I would like to know if they can be setup in an External RAID0 Array for my MacBook Pro?
I believe this is possible, but would love for someone to tell me step by step directions, first, of what I need besides the HD's and my MacBook Pro. And secondly, the steps from the beginning to the end, in order?
Here is what I have:
My 13" MacBook Pro OSX Lion 2.4GHz 8GB RAM 80GB SSD (Internal)
2- 320GB 5400RPM Hitachi HD's
And I'm willing to go buy whatever else you tell me I need, to get this job done?
I look forward to hearing from someone and taking on my first RAID0 project.
Thank you.

 

[hayduke]

1) Buy a two-disk enclosure.
2) Consider RAID-0 and RAID-1.
3) Follow the directions in Disk Utility.app

 

[sublimaze69]

Thank you.

2 Disc enclosure and Disk utility directions. Got it.
Thank you.

I'm sure this will be a dumb embarrassing question, but I'm shameless and will ask anyway, to satisfy curiosity. What purpose, other than the obvious protection, does a disc enclosure serve? Because I notice that I can boot to the external drives, which are actually Internal Drives, without a disc enclosure. Just simply hooked unto this Drive Wire adapter, sitting out in the open and the MacBook will run the drives. I'm still going to get a 2 disc enclosure, but I'm just curious about the importance of them.

Thank you again for helping me.