Currently only the OneTouch III Turbo 1TB (Terabyte) drives provide RAID 1 (Mirrored) support. Configuring a RAID volume is a data destructive process. It is strongly recommended that you backup any/all data on your OneTouch III Turbo drive before proceeding.

1. Double-click on the Maxtor OneTouch Manager icon on your Windows Desktop. This will launch the Onetouch Manager application. If this icon has been removed from the desktop, click Start > Programs (All Program for Windows XP) > Maxtor > OneTouch > Maxtor OneTouch^™ Manager
2. Click on the Settings button.
3. The Settings window appears. Click on the RAID Settings button.
4. The RAID Settings window appears. At any time you may click on the link "How do these RAID Settings work", located at the bottom of the screen to learn more about the offered RAID configurations for the OneTouch III Turbo Edition drives.
5. By default the OneTouch III Turbo drive is configured with a RAID 0 (Striped) volume – this RAID setting provides speed, but no redundancy in the event of of a single disk failure. To setup a RAID 1 (mirrored) volume, click on the RAID 1 – Redundancy radio button and click Next.
6. A Warning displays notifying you that configuring a RAID 1 volume is a data destructive process. It is recommended that you backup any/all critical data on your OneTouch III Turbo drive. When you are ready, click Continue
7. You will see a window stating that the RAID Setup is in progress. When the setup is finished, you will be prompted to format the newly created RAID 1 volume. Click OK to close this window. The RAID Setup process may take awhile to complete.
8. When the RAID Setup is finished, a window displays prompting you to format the new volume. Click Format to proceed.
9. To confirm that you want to prepare the RAID 1 volume, click Format.
10. At this point, the RAID volume is partitioned and formatted. This may take awhile to complete.
11. When the format is complete, click OK. The OneTouch III Turbo Drive is now configured with a RAID 1 volume.

Maxtor OneTouch III Video Tutorial – Performing Diagnostics From a Windows PC

This page will link you to a Flash Video that shows you how to configure a RAID 1 (mirrored) volume on your Maxtor OneTouch III Turbo drive.

Flash Turorial: http://support.seagate.com/rightnow/flash/OneTouchIII/RAID/one/one.html