The PERC H710 is brand new, but the manuals can be found online here:   For the H710's predecessors, you could easily run multiple raid sets, so (w/o reading the manual) I'm pretty sure the H710 can as well. Single discs can indeed be connected, but you can only use it if you make it a raid set (with a single disk you would make it a single disk raid 0). This may not be transferable to a non-H710 though.
Hi, I would need to learn a bit how the PERC H710 works (aka PERC in general) as I am about to purchase PowerEdge R720 and I need to made a specification for the hardware.  Here are my questions: 1/ Is it possible to combine different RAID on a PERC? Example: I purchase configuration with RAID 1. Later I buy more HDD which will be used by RAID 5. Can the same PERC run the original RAID 1 along side with new created RAID5? 2/ If I have a disk(s) which is not a member of any RAID – can this disk(s) be connected to the PERC, if there is already at least one RAID configured? Thank you for information.
PERC H710 - basic technical know-how