I have a Dell XPS computer running Win 7 and a RAID 1 array of 2 WD 1.5 TB drives. The system hung up and shut down and now w

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SuperSoph_WD
Welcome to Tom's Hardware, halu42!

This seems very unfortunate! :( I hope you have a backup of the data stored on the RAID 1 because, unfortunately, it's not a good backup solution.
Since those two WD HDDs were your system drives as well, your option to troubleshoot their health and check up on their SMART data is through DOS.
You should run WD's Data LifeGuard Diagnostics for DOS (once you select your WD HDD product, you should be able to see the software file), but first, you'd need to create a bootable flash drive with the utility. I'd recommend you to follow the instructions here.

Hope it helps you. Keep me posted with the results.
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Welcome to Tom's Hardware, halu42!

This seems very unfortunate! :( I hope you have a backup of the data stored on the RAID 1 because, unfortunately, it's not a good backup solution.
Since those two WD HDDs were your system drives as well, your option to troubleshoot their health and check up on their SMART data is through DOS.
You should run WD's Data LifeGuard Diagnostics for DOS (once you select your WD HDD product, you should be able to see the software file), but first, you'd need to create a bootable flash drive with the utility. I'd recommend you to follow the instructions here.

Hope it helps you. Keep me posted with the results.
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