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I went down this path of having my boot drives setup as a RAID mirror. As previously noted, a typical motherboard RAID is purely a software driven event, this only works for a system which has a software driver that support it such a Windoze. This is not a true RAID. So I recieved a true RAID card and installed it into my machine and attached the two SATA SSD's to it and now I had true fail-over RAID support. If one of the drives fail, the RAID card will ensure the second drive picks up the load. The only reason I even went down this path is because I'm running an ESXi Server. If this were just a FreeNAS server for home use then I'd recommend using a single SSD as the boot device and ensure you retain a current copy of your configuration file so you can easily perform a recovery.