Thanks for the advice.
The disks are all assigned, the drives all work, two new WD Reds (2TB) and one Sandisk SSD (240GB cache drive), its a Dell T110, 4 cores, 8GB RAM.
I digressed into VMs because I was limited in horse power with other vmware servers.
I'll stick with NAS for now, I'm still quite curious why only cache, disk1, ect only show up with VMs, as I would assume the shares would come up instead of the disks themselves.