in simple language what is ...

fedupnow

The Intel Matrix Storage Console?

I know I probably appear totally stupid but I have no idea what it is and what I am supposed to do with it and it is in my opening menu and showing up as 'pink' which I am guessing means 'give me some attention'.

I have looked around and I gather it is something to do with RAID - whatever they are.

Gawd I'm dull. Sorry.

ohyeahitssorcy

It is indeed something to do with RAID, raid is a minefield sometimes but for your info raid stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks and is used primarily in servers and commercial data storage systems, as its name suggests its all about redundancy which basically means if one disk fails another takes its place or you can have the same data spread over multiple disks just in case one breaks down the data is not lost or you can treat 2 independant disks as one so that its twice as fast at accessing and writing data but if one disk fails then you lose all data all very complicated stuff, you dont need it on a home pc unless you know what you are doing with it.

It might be pink as its a freshly installed or a never before used program ? just a guess i would ignore it