I was thinking it'd be nice to mirror one of my (non-system) drives (of which I have an identical, empty one). I was thinking I'd just use the software RAID facilities in Windows with Dynamic ...

It's not hardware RAID. The RAID is handled by the BIOS (firmware, still running on your CPU) until Windows starts to boot, at which point Intel's driver (Matrix Storage Manager, i.e. software) takes ...

In simple layman’s terms, RAID is a technology that allows users to combine multiple physical disk drives into a single unit. This improves data storage performance and reliability, enhances data ...