Removing raid 1 (mirroring) and leaving data on both drives

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Hello, I have two drives in a raid 1 (mirroring) array. Hardware raid using whatever is built into an Intel motherboard. (asus P5BE) I'd like to remove one drive but keep the data in both (I want to put one of the drives into another machine).

Can I go into the raid configuration and remove the array and have the data remain?

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