Help on Sil3132 Raid 5 setup/limitations

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Hello all im having a play with my server and have the following config:

Striker Extreme
E6700
8GB Corsair 6400
1 x 320GB OS
4 x 1TB (Raid 5)
1 x DVD-RW SATA

The problem im having is i have set the raid up in the bios but there seems to be 2 one where you enable sata and then enable each drive and the Sil3132.
Which one do i want im sure it was the one where you enable each drive manually and change its mode to SATA.

Anyways aside from that i go into the raid bios and set it to raid 5 and set my stripe but if i add all 4 x 1TB drives it only gives me around 700GB, if i add just 3 drives it works fine.

Is this a drive size limitation on the controller?

Any advice apart from the obvious of buying a dedicated raid controller.

Cheers

Ulti
 
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