Help with DAS RAID

[Cassady]

Hello all,

I have a Vantec NexStar HX4R with 4x 2TB WD Reds installed.

Well, I had 3, and was running RAID5.
I popped in the 4th this evening, and set the Vantec to RAID1+0, by physically setting the toggle buttons on the external housing.

When I installed and fired it up, no Disk Initialization option popped up, which is what the manual said would happen. Having a look in Disk Utility, didn't show much of a difference.

So I decided to erase everything again. Upon going through this process, it now shows I have 4TB of space - which appears to be right, since RAID 1+0 is 2x my smallest drive (i.e. 2x2TB=4TB).

My problem(?)::

Disk Utility has my two drives (I partitioned the drive into 2) listed under the main device, BUT the device description reads as follows: JMicron H/W RAID5 Media... It hasn't changed.

Now I'm worried that it's still running it as RAID5, and NOT RAID 1+0, as it should be... How would I verify this? Is there any way to check whether it's functioning as either RAID5 or RAID1+0?

Any suggestions?

Below is a screen grab.

 

[Cassady]

Shucks. Think I've confirmed still working as RAID5. Copying my media back onto the newly created partition, and only the top 3 LED lights of the device are lighting up. The 4th drive's light simply remains fixed - which means only the original 3 are being written on/to.

Guess I'll need to jimmy things... Think I'll remove the original 3 bays, and fire it up only with the new one installed, and see what happens. Hoping that will force the reinitialize, and then take things from there... Joy.

[EDIT:] All sorted - found the Reset button on the device - RAID10 up and running!