Sylvia,
Thank you. I'm up and running with four drives on a RAID10 configuration thanks to your help!
With this in mind, I have three questions:
1.) I updated my Intel Matrix Storage Manager software from version 8.9.0.1023 to the latest version - v.12.9.0.1001. It is functioning properly. However upon startup, I noticed that the Option ROM is still running the old version 8.9.0.1023. My experience and logic tells me that the Option ROM should be upgraded to match the software. Do I need to do this and if so, can you provide guidance?
2.) In running the 12.9.0.1001 software, I noticed that three of my four Seagate hard drives are running an older version of their Firmware. One of the drives is running a newer - but not the newest version - of firmware. Since these four drives are now part of a RAID10 array, should I worry about updating their firmware? If I attempt to do so, is there any risk that I could mess up the ARRAY and get stuck rebuilding from scratch again?
3.) Lastly, I noticed that my PC is running sluggish with this RAID10 configuration and that I sometimes see the spinning circle (aka hourglass) that the drives are doing something when running some data intensive activities. I did enable "Disk data cache," but am still seeing the same performance issue. Any thoughts on what this might be and how I can diagnose it?
Thanks again for the help!
James