Setting up a new raid and preserving disk contents

I have a Maxtor 250GB drive full of data. I just purchased a Maxtor 300GB drive that I am going to use as a RAID 1. Is it possible to set up the raid without formatting the 250GB and immediately have it mirrored to the 300? If so, what steps would I take?
Also can I set up two volumes on the 300 so that 250 is part of the raid and the extra 50 isn't?

yes I noticed that but I travel a lot and want to have then stored on the Ipad so I don't use 3G data usage unknowingly..Its good in a way cause music you don't really listen to does not waste space...I did notice that if you select "album" view there is a choice to "download all" in that album so that would be faster then one by one..I would think they have a "download all" for the whole libary.
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