Ok, I managed to set up my new Raid 5 on the adaptec 3085 card with 3X 750GB WD drives... the storage manager says everything is good to go and I did the verify with fix thing too but I have no clue where I'm actually supposed to be able to access the array/logical device because it's not in my computer or anywhere else I think it might be, and no matter what terms I use to search, nobody seems to have this problem... so I'm guessing it's really obvious and I'm just being dumb about it...

Any tips?

Vista by the way

So you have correctly setup the RAID5 array and the software from Adaptec reports the 3 drives as being in the single RAID5 array with a 1.5TB capacity, correct?

Did you format the array? Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management.

See? It was just that simple lol

Thank you.

Strangely though, the size dropped to 1.36 TB... ?

Whenever you format a drive you lose a percentage of the total storage. Its because of the difference between "normal" and binary numbers. HD manufacturers use 1,000,000,000 bytes to define a gigabyte, but formatted drives use the 1 GiB standard... if you really want to know you can wiki or google it. Anyhow thats where the discrepancy comes from.

-mcg