Can't see my RAID 5 Array in Win 10

[ignoramus]

Dumb question. Are you logged in as admin?

Maybe you need that to initialize the volume.

[popeyespappy]

Dumb question. Are you logged in as admin?

Maybe you need that to initialize the volume.

Yes on 1 maybe on 2. But if so on the latter I need a tool other than Windows disk management because the drive doesn't show up there.

[ignoramus]

have you done the raid mb drivers yet?

[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.

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.

In device manager, is it seen as 1 device or as 3? If 1, does it show what driver it's trying to use?

[ignoramus]

check bios under advanced > then storage configuration change from ahci to raid.
make sure you have the latest bios

I noticed that others don't have the special bios section (activated by Control "I" like all my gigabyte boards have).

How exactly did you setup the raid 5 stripe set?

[popeyespappy]

Maybe you need that to initialize the volume.

This appears to be the problem, and the initialization process needs to be performed in the Intel RTS software. I've started that process, but it looks like it's going to take awhile. According to one random guy on the Internet his drives initialized at about 200 GB per hour. Hopefully this one will go a little faster because 14.9 TB / 200 GB per hour is 74.5 hours. That would be sometime Thursday morning before the process is complete. Initialization was already at 1% about 20 minutes into the process though so maybe these drives will go a little faster.

[ignoramus]

OK, this all makes sense now.
I've never made raid sets which weren't boot drives so yeah, create the raid set from within the intel management software.

When mine do go out of sync, they do take forever to get back to 100%.
It must use plenty of resources because everything slows down.

Good luck man.

[popeyespappy]

The drives were only 27% initialized when I got to the office this morning. Looks like it's going to be Friday before it's 100%.

[popeyespappy]

We shit. The drive was at 81% when I left yesterday, I was hoping it would be finished initialized by the time I got in this morning. But no. It was only at 96% at 8 am. Now 4 plus hours later it's just 98%. I'm guessing the closer to the center of the disk it gets the slower things progress.

[ignoramus]

Pop, in all seriousness. Back in the old days, we'd use server grade components. EG A thousand dollar mylex raid card, etc.
The servers were all scsi in those days. Anyway, once the raid was setup it was fine for years.

The issue I have today is not so much the server grade hardware (look at googles and banking silos), it is the fact that the cheap taiwan motherboards with onboard raid are used as servers!
It's the old adage, you get what you pay for. My sata (good click-in cable) connector likes to disconnect for no reason. I just plug it out and back in and the intel service finds the disk again and starts rebuilding. and 3 frikking days later it's rebuilt. An 8tb usb3 backup drive is your friend!