TS130 Two sets of raid

Hi, i am running a ts130 (xeon) with two ssd's in raid 1 mirror...I want to add another two drives to run in raid 1 mirrors so i will have a total of 4 drives.I dont need the dvd drive so i can use that sata port.....can this be done?
Thanks for your help.

Should be possible yes. Just try it.
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Thanks for the speedy feedback Harm - I appreciate it.
I was thinking RAID level 3 as well.
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