mdadm Software RAID Error - "mdadm: devices too large for RAID level 10"

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SysFailure0x5a

Guest
The RAID controller I purchased doesn't work with my motherboard for some reason. So in the interest of time and money I tried setting up RAID10 on the Proxmox cli but I'm getting the following error. All the tutorials I followed mention nothing on this issue, they all just assume the command works without any issues. Google results have absolutely nothing but source code for mdadm with the error message in it. Each hard drive is 750GB in size.

Code:
root@HV01:~# [B]mdadm -v --create /dev/md0 --level=raid10 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd /dev/sde[/B]
mdadm: layout defaults to n2
mdadm: chunk size defaults to 512K
mdadm: layout defaults to n2
mdadm: layout defaults to n2
mdadm: super1.x cannot open /dev/sdb: Device or resource busy
mdadm: /dev/sdb appears to be part of a raid array:
    level=container devices=4 ctime=Tue Feb 12 20:32:50 2013
mdadm: partition table exists on /dev/sdb but will be lost or
       meaningless after creating array
mdadm: /dev/sdc appears to be part of a raid array:
    level=container devices=4 ctime=Tue Feb 12 20:32:50 2013
mdadm: partition table exists on /dev/sdc but will be lost or
       meaningless after creating array
mdadm: /dev/sdd appears to be part of a raid array:
    level=container devices=4 ctime=Tue Feb 12 20:32:50 2013
mdadm: partition table exists on /dev/sdd but will be lost or
       meaningless after creating array
mdadm: /dev/sde appears to be part of a raid array:
    level=container devices=4 ctime=Tue Feb 12 20:32:50 2013
mdadm: partition table exists on /dev/sde but will be lost or
       meaningless after creating array
[SIZE=3][B]mdadm: devices too large for RAID level 10[/B][/SIZE]
 

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