Can't see my RAID 5 Array in Win 10

[Abaddon_ire]

OK, does BIOS see the drives?

No rush, whenever you get back.

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Dude the prices are irrelevant. Don't post those. Nobody cares.

[popeyespappy]

OK, does BIOS see the drives?

No rush, whenever you get back.

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Dude the prices are irrelevant. Don't post those. Nobody cares.

Yes, the drives are visible in the bios.

As far as prices go that image has been in another thread on this board for a couple of weeks now. It wasn't my money. At least not most of it. My employer bought the parts out of overhead, and ultimately those $$$ came from are US taxpayers. The machine is being built to process images, a lot of images, and digitize old audio tapes for the government.

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The machine is running Windows 10 Pro 64 bit...

[ignoramus]

Pop. The drives are visible in bios.
Did you create the raid set in bios also (*usually ^I)
I'm assuming you did. Is it showing up as eg: vol0 (stripe raid 5) for 3x8tb = 16tb roughly?) (1x drive = redundant parity)

Are you sure there's no special boot (usb) raid drivers needed by the mb manufacturer?

catch...

[popeyespappy]

Pop. The drives are visible in bios.
Did you create the raid set in bios also (*usually ^I)

I don't know what "^I" means, but yes I created the RAID 5 array in bios.

I'm assuming you did. Is it showing up as eg: vol0 (stripe raid 5) for 3x8tb = 16tb roughly?) (1x drive = redundant parity)

Yes. 14.5 TB.

Are you sure there's no special boot (usb) raid drivers needed by the mb manufacturer?

I'm not sure, but there sure isn't anything in the manual about it. There is a seperate set of instructions that I didn't see until now that talks about downloading installing a driver, but it says you only need that if you want to boot from the Raid array. I don't. I'm using the Samsung NVMe for the boot drive. Maybe I'm misunderstanding that though...

catch...

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[ignoramus]

catch means catch you later! hehe

I hear you ... Do yourself a favour and uninstall the intel software (it's optional) and install the raid drivers from the motherboard site.
Tell us how that goes. Nothing to lose. It could just be a glitch...

[skyking]

which disk is windows installed on?

[popeyespappy]

catch means catch you later!  hehe

I hear you ... Do yourself a favour and uninstall the intel software (it's optional) and install the raid drivers from the motherboard site.
Tell us how that goes. Nothing to lose. It could just be a glitch...

I'll try it. As you say it couldn't hurt. Especially since per Intel I am looking at reinstalling the OS anyway.

which disk is windows installed on?

The OS is installed on the 500GB Samsung NVMe drive. The raid array is just for storage of what we are estimating is going to be about 12 TB of images.

[bennyboy]

I'm quite curious if the 14TB shows up as a single drive in disk management, and whether it has a drive Label (E: for example) associated with it. If not, maybe you just need to format the drive? I'm out of my comfort zone here, but I've had similar-ish stuff before (drives showing up in manager but not in My Computer) that was solved by playing around in disk management.

[skyking]

Thanks Pappy.
I have no recent experience with windows server software, I've been linux for servers for the last 20 years. In the 'nix world, I have better luck with software raid, as it is not hardware dependent. If you have a MB crap out ( or a raid card for that matter ) you are stuck getting the same chipset back in play. Software raid will work on any chipset, it's just portable.

[popeyespappy]

I'm quite curious if the 14TB shows up as a single drive in disk management, and whether it has a drive Label (E: for example) associated with it.  If not, maybe you just need to format the drive?  I'm out of my comfort zone here, but I've had similar-ish stuff before (drives showing up in manager but not in My Computer) that was solved by playing around in disk management.

The raid array is visible in bios and Windows device manager but neither the individual drives nor the array are visible under Windows disk management.