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IIRC, the issue is that if these drives develop a bad sector then they will keep retrying to read data beyond the point where the raid controller thinks they have failed, which will chuck the disk out of the array. Probably not the end of the world in raid 1.
Personally, though, I'd prefer to have a separate backup disks to raided/mirrored disks - it's much less likely for a disk to fail than it is for me to accidentally trash some files and need to restore from a backup.
 
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