Apple DU vs SoftRAID's drivers for RAID volumes, performancewise?

Hi,
For some time I have been using SoftRAID's (http://www.softraid.com/) drivers (v. 4.0.7) for an OS+apps SSD and my users' accounts on a 2*2TB RAID0 (WD Caviar Blacks) volume. At present the User volume is about 50% full (2 of 4TB).
I am considering to make the users' accounts volume a 2*3TB RAID1 (Hitachis) for safety reasons. My questions to the knowledgable people in this forum are:
1) I am aware that a RAID1 will be slower than a RAID0 volume. But will an Apple DU RAID1 or a SoftRAID RAID1 volume likely be faster?
2) Using SoftRAID's drivers on disks/volumes prohibits use of some troubleshooting utilities such as iPartition, DriveGenius, etc. Hence, is it adviseable to put SoftRAID drivers also on non-RAID volumes, such as my SSD boot volume?
I am hoping somebody with experience in these things can advise.
Thanks.

Softraid always worked with TTPro and Disk Warrior, and never needed the others, and I wouldn't let iPartition touch someone else's.
Apple mirror I rate as weaker, doesn't use a stripe read, doesn't alert to I/O errors. don't they mention in features their implementation of mirror rebuilds and faster background rebuilds when needed?
Personally, a good backup sets and clones. Mirror if you use three rdives so even under a failure you still have two and it can do background rebuild. Otherwise, dont' use mirror. 3TB mirrors are huge long and slow to copy. Really think you need to worry about hardware drive failure, huh?
I've used SoftRAID from 2.2.1 days a decade ago. They support is one of if not the best I have had the pleasure to deal with and help me through as well as given me an education.

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