Actually, if you want MIRROR, I believe that is considered RAID1. Everything that I have seen that talks about the Maxtor/RAID issue talks about RAID0 (striping), so I have no reason to believe that there is an issue with mirroring. And it's not that they don't work, it's just that the performance is so slow, it's actually slightly slower than a single drive alone, while striping with two drives SHOULD give you throughput almost twice as fast as a single drive.
I want to stripe, so I have my fingers crossed that OD is also shipping the "5 gigs free" version.