3 disk RAID 5 array shows 1/2 capacity

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I have 2 250GB Western Digital and 1 Seagate 250GB drive. I just added the SG and only see 250GB when I know I should see 500. Does the fact that they are of different brands make a difference? After migrating, a dialog box even came up telling me to restart so I could see the increased storage and I did to no avail.
I have an intel ICH8R southbridge and the software says the array is healthy with 3 drives and is in mode 5, I don't know where the 250GB went.

Anyone need a couple HDDs?
 
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How did you have it setup before you put the 3rd disk in? Just adding a drive wont make the storage instantly available to use, you have to partition and format it.
 
migration does not always work, sometimes you gotta build from ground up. back up your data then rebuild the RAID from scratch
 
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