Upgrade hard drive size with mirrored RAID

First of all thanks for your help.
I have a G5 XServe with (3) 250GB Drives
(1) drive is for the OS .... great perfect no change needed.
The other to drives are mirrored to eath other and hold 240GB worth of work.
I would like to buy (2) 500GB Drives to replace the 250GB Drives.
What is the easiest way to do this?
Idea 1) Will this work???
Break the raid by ejecting one of drives.
Put in one new 500GB Drive.
Copy all data from 250GB to 500GB
Eject 250GB drive
Put in other 500GB drive.
Re-set up Mirror with out losing data?
Idea 2)
Copy it all to an external drive....
Install new 500GB drives
Set up Mirror
Copy data back.
Hmmm... either way I'll have to set up all of my share points?
Thanks for helping me think this through.

Either path will work.
The first should be faster (the data only needs to be copied one), the second gives you a spare/backup copy of the data which might come in handy later.
Sharepoints are referenced by path, so as long as the new 500GB mirror is mounted in the same place as the existing 250GB mirror, your sharepoints should remain intact.

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