I have two 500GB SATA HDDs arranged in a RAID 1 mirror. I did this originally because I'm paranoid about losing my data. I have some questions about RAIDing.<BR><BR>1. Are modern HDDs (specifically ...

I did RAID 1 on 2 40 Gig maxtor's in NTFS for Windows 2000 but when I look at the drive GB it says 31 GB so I think I lost a good 4 to 5 Gb in doing the RAID wrong (also this RAID was done with both ...