After a RAID 5 failure, I have set up my data volume as RAID 10 using 4x2TB WD Red drives.  The volume shows as OK on bootup and in the Intel Rapid Storage Technology dialogue but it does not come up as an available drive.

I have initialised it in both the Intel Rapid Storage Technology dialogue and in Control Panel\ Administrative Tools\ Disk Management and presumably I have yet to create a new volume in Disk Management.  For RAID 10 do I select New Spanned Volume..., New Striped Volume... or New Mirrored Volume?

I don't think it can be a spanned volume but since RAID 10 is both striped and mirrored, which do I select?

I solved the problem.  It was just a confusing interface in Control Panel\ Administrative Tools\ Disk Management.  Intel Rapid Storage Technology had already defined the RAID array so when I went into the dialogue to create a new volume there was only one drive available so all I had to do was create a simple volume and format it.

• Marked as answer by Murray Foote Friday, January 10, 2014 1:29 PM

Glad to here it is sloved, thanks for sharing your solution and experience here.

Regards