To use start by formatting your disks to use btrfs. You will divide your disks into parity and data disks. I recommend starting with at least 1 parity disk and any number of data disks (at least 1, but 1 is really a fine place to start if you intend to expand later).
Format your data disks (note the oceandNN naming scheme where the 'd' denotes that it is a data disk and the number is the disk index)
sudo mkfs.btrfs -L oceand01 /dev/sdi1