Thanks for the help. I finally figured out the issue. Apparently server 2016 needed an updated driver for the RAID controller. I downloaded the driver and put it on a USB stick and at the "where do you want to install Windows" screen I loaded that driver and immediately was able to see all of my RAID drives. So I started over with the three drive setup just to see if it may work and I set my two data drives to raid one mirror and did nothing with the OS drive other than set it to Non RAID. I started installation again, loaded the driver and two drives appeared one was my 500 GB OS drive and the other one of the two terabyte data drives. So apparently this controller will do a mix of RAID and NON-RAID drives simultaneously. This is now set up and working exactly as I wanted it to but I have hopefully a final question. Before I deploy is there any way for me to verify the mirrored drive is working correctly? We do an off-site backup as well but I would still like to at least know that if one of these drives should fail the other is ready to go. Also, the documentation is a bit vague as far as the process and the event of a failure.. if one of these mirror drives fails will it continue to operate without any human help? Since it is set to raid and mirrored.. if one of these drives fails will it still boot or will it catch it as "hey I'm set to raid 1 and there's only one drive functioning so I'm just not going to boot? 
I am setting up a t130 power edge using the embedded PERC. I have already installed server probably five times because each time I go into try to reconfigurate I end up wiping the drive or making it unusable. I don't want to start with data transfer from the current server until I know I'm set up the way I want to be. I have two drives that will be the operating system drives. I really don't care if these drives are mirrored or not because they literally will only host the operating system and run as a file and QuickBook server. The Data drive are the ones that are really important. I have two options I have a set of match drives that I can use for operating system if they need to be in a mirrored array and I have a set of match drives that must be in a mirrored array. The issue I had was setting it up with the three drives I realize that changing the OS drive to non-raid made it unusable... it wasn't even found until I switched it back. Is it possible to set two of the drives to mirror each other and host the operating system and the other two drives to mirror each other and host our files? Basically (2) raid one arrays. If it's not possible can the operating system drive be outside of the array completely in only mirror the two secondary drives? My other question is that I've found there are more than way to configure raid and they all have different options. You can configure it through the ctrl+r or by going into lifecycle >device management & then perc controller directly.. is there a "best way" to set it up? On a mirrored array is it best to leave the option set at default as far as cache, read write thru etc? Also the hot swappable option I not familiar with. You would think in a mirrored disc set the drives would be interchangeable? Lastly, to start from square one what is the best way to put my hdd's back into "out of the box" state and go in and start setting up raid as if it was first time? Thanks for any help 
Help with simple Raid setup