Wow okay I will give that a go. I would have never thought of that and I am not totally sure if I know how to do what you have described but I will try.
I do have my hard drives mirrored but not using a RAID. I just use the windows 8 mirror drive option (which I am told is crap). Both drives are the exact same brand name and size they are inside my tower connected through e-sata. I purchase them together and then mirror them.