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Well first thing you need to know is what was the original partional layout? How many partitions?

Another important detail is if this was in a laptop, what manufacturer, and was it ever reformatted? Or it is the way it came from said manufacturer.

Reasons I ask are. Windows 8 normally will format ...

Concerning /dev/sda, Partition table type: Intel, after Analyse and Quick Search, if the 3 Linux Raid partitions are listed, choose Write, confirm, Quit
and proceed with the next disk. When all partitions tables are ok, reboot and it will be time to work on the logical raid itself.

Yeah, they ...

DiskStation> mdadm -D /dev/md2
/dev/md2:
Version : 1.2
Creation Time : Sun May 19 18:10:54 2013
Raid Level : raid5
Array Size : 3897559296 (3717.00 GiB 3991.10 GB)
Used Dev Size : 1948779648 (1858.50 GiB 1995.55 GB)
Raid Devices : 3
Total Devices : 3
Persistence : Superblock is persistent ...

I have the following setup:

System: ESXI 5.1 w/ datastore on mSATA SSD
OS: Virtual Machine - Synology DSM 4.2
Arrary: 3 x 2TB Samsung Spinpoint F4EG HD204UI passed through to Synology VM by RDM (Raw Device Mapping)

To make a long story short. This system was running great for over a month. I went ...