Dell PowerEdge 2900 - need to use internal drives for RAID

Hi all

I am the I.T. guy for small business from my father. I help them on the side.

They have recently purchased a PowerEdge 2900 server used with 4 internal SCSI drives

This server also has a Dell SAS 5 / i integrated controller

I want to install Windows 2008 R2 standard on this server and use it as a file server and a place to host QuickBooks Enterprise.

The problem, in that I am running is that I can't find in the Bios or anywhere in the server startup utilities where I can configure the 4 internal drives as a RAID 5 array. I want to do this and THEN install the Windows Server operating system. I used the last Build Server utility Dell and also updated all the firmware to the latest versions. The Build Server utility doesn't let me configure the RAID array.  What I'm missing here?

Thank you very much for your help!

I upgraded to a PERC 6 / i integrated RAID controller and now problem is solved. Just need a new controller internal RAID.

Problem is solved!

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