Onboard RAID 5 with a separate OS Drive

I want to setup RAID5 on my system but I get some issues. I searched the web and tried to find the problem but failed to find anything.

My motherboard supports RAID 5, but in the ASUS manual I am directed to switch the SATA settings to RAID. Moreover, I don’t get the option of picking and choosing of the drives. When I change the setting to RAID, the Intel RAID setup utility comes after BIOS. I also made the RAID array easy. I don’t choose my operating system driver to be an array part. Everything seems to be good in the Intel RAID setup utility. Then I exit and after that nothing works, neither windows nor Ubuntu.

After that I want back to BIOS and changed the SATA setting to IDE and behold both OS work without error. Anyway, now I don’t have RAID. Another things happened that Disk manager in Win7 shows I have 9 TB on 3 drives otherwise it will be 11 or 12 TB.

In short, this is much more problematic than I had imagined, can somebody take me to the right direction. Onboard RAID 5 with a separate OS Drive

You may face the below problem.

You might have installed the OS and your Mother Board was in IDE mode.
If the above case is true then it will not boot in SATA mode or RAID mode.
As it was in SATA mode, so it will support only single drives.

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