Can I set up a single 1TB fantom drive as a 500GB mirror raid?

Hi,
I just got a 1TB fantom gforce megadisk to use as a backup drive. I know it has two 500 GB drives in the enclosure. My question is: can I use this single enclosure as a 500GB mirror raid with each separate internal drive as one of the mirrors? I haven't found a way to see both drives in the enclosure as separate drives, so I'm not sure I can do this. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.

Michael,
You can create a RAID 1 Array, just make sure that the Drive with the Data is the Master and not the Mirror. You can have the RAID Controller build the image (Sync the Drives), and then you should be mirrored before you even boot back into Windows. The OS will not know the difference. 
Take Care,
Richard

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