Good afternoon all,

So, I'm completely new to everything server related but was given a poweredge t110 from work which I thought I could use as a Plex server at home. 

However, I can't do anything with it! I've been monkeying about with every setting I can find to get it to recognise my hdd but it's not happening! I thought I could just plug in my hdd, install windows server 2016 and away we go - adding new hdds as and when I needed to (as with a PC) but I see now just how naive that is. I'm fairly experienced with building PCs etc and imagined they'd be more or less the same - at least the bios...but nooooo!!

I don't know much about RAID (although have researched online a lot before reaching out for help) but thought that a NAS server would work better for what I have in mind. 

I've seen posts suggesting doing an IT flash which I'd do if I could find the software - I don't know if it would work but after 2 days fiddling about I'm willing to try anything!

If someone has any suggestions I'd love to hear from you but please, in easy to understand steps - think of me as a 5 year old and you (or I) won't go far wrong!

Thank you so much for taking the time.