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 Disks.

So, my home PC had a 300GB hard disk that I've been running on for awhile. There seems to have been a rash of failed disks around me (friends and family) and its gotten me a little more paranoid than ...