RAID disk as Airport Disk

Hi
I wanted to buy one of the new Western Digital My Book Pro II (2 x 1TB Dual Disks) which come with a RAID Manager for RAID 1 Mirroring.
While it will obviously work ok if I attach it directly to my Mac, will this still work if I use it as an Airport Disk? Does the RAID Manager software have to be running the whole time to keep the mirroring happening?
Thanks
D.

Does the RAID Manager software have to be running the whole time to keep the mirroring happening?
If this an "embedded" RAID, you have no control of that.

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Having had an issue with rendering iMovie effects and read through a few posted thread, I ran an experiment that pinpoints an incompatibility between iMovie and large size (800GB) RAID array volumes. Hence the following questions:
Is iMovie designed to support large sire RAID disk arrays ?
Could anybody test a non-RAID array large size (say 500GB or better 1000GB) volume to check if it is size or RAID dependent ?
When can we expect a fix ?
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Reading through the other threads talking about the Quartz composer effects, it sounds like the Apple programmers have a lot of work ahead to deliver a more robust 6.0.2 version.
I wanted to record the noticed incompatibility of working with a project outside the System & Application drive and applying Quartz composer effects.
Most keen videographers are using either a good large size external drive, a RAID array or a separate partition to store their video footage and editing work. So the noticed incompatibility needs to be looked into.
Interestingly, I read of other users having the same problem but Karl Petersen also mentionned that he didn't have the problem ...
So, what's wrong ? If the problem would be consistent, it would be easy to have Apple on their toes to fix it, but if not ...
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-> External 120GB FireWire Disk in one volume.
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For the non-Quartz Composer 'fast/slow/reverse' effect and the Quartz Composer 'sepia tone' effect, rendering starts but then stops a fraction of a second later (as if it was unable to write the rendered file to disk). Resulting image in the video viewer is shifted diagonally to leave a black corner on the bottom-left.
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