I had 2 non-bootable HDDs in a RAID 1 configuration through Intel Rapid Storage Technology. Recently IRST started giving out warnings about the S.M.A.R.T. data of one of the drives so I decided to replace them both with 2 new 3TB (2.7TB) HDDs.
While the 2 new drives were detected by the BIOS, I had to update Intel Rapid Storage Technology from version 10.1.0.1008 to 10.8.0.1003 just for it to notice the new disks:
However when I try to create a new RAID 1 volume, the disks are not included in the options. I only see my other irrelevant drives:
I have gone over the restrictions for a drive to appear there and I don't see a problem.
I then tried to create the volume from outside Windows. There's a command line version that I can access before Windows loads, but I can't see the new disks there either. That particular utility is still version 10.1.0.1008, by the way, and I haven't a clue how to upgrade it.
Does anyone have any ideas?