[CentOS] Transferring system to new RAID drive

[Matt]

>>  Is there a way to copy it to a hardware RAID 1 array of two
>> drives in a similiar way?
>
> The same way? The underlying OS knows nothing of the physical geometry
> behind a hardware raid controller. Find out what dev it is, sd? and do what
> you did, so long as it's exactly the same size or bigger.

Would going from a single 500G sata to two 500G sata drives in
hardware raid 1 work?  Just wandering if some space will be lost using
raid 1?

Matt