Intel Rapid Storage Technology RAID?

[hbsterling]

Raid setup was not working for me on Windows so I saw it on the bios and put three 6tb drives in RAID 5 and came up as a 12 tb unformatted drive in Windows. Is that all I have to do to setup raid, can I just format the drive and put files on it and data will be stripped with parity or did I do something wrong? If a drive fails what would I do and how would I monitor that?

[Radium_Angel]

16 minutes ago, hbsterling said:

Raid setup was not working for me on Windows so I saw it on the bios and put three 6tb drives in RAID 5 and came up as a 12 tb unformatted drive in Windows. Is that all I have to do to setup raid, can I just format the drive and put files on it and data will be stripped with parity or did I do something wrong? If a drive fails what would I do and how would I monitor that?

You are doing it properly. Part of the 18GB will be used as parity, and the intel RST monitor will tell you if something is failing (or it should, there should be an icon in the taskbar that shows the status)