I don't know if you have already been told this, or if you figured it out. The reason why these drives don't work in your system is because they are 4Kn formatted drives.  P710 series controllers do not support 4Kn.  There is allegedly some workaround, but getting that info out of Dell is going to be next to impossible. (They want you to buy your drives from them.) Corey
Hi, I have a R620 with a Perc H710 Mini Raid.  I currently have 3 1TB SATA drives in a RAID 5 config and need more disk space.  Unfortunately I have the backplane that only supports up to 4 drives. I tried to replace the drives with 3 2TB SATA drives but the RAID controller shows Blocked.  I put the 2 of the original 3 drives back in and 1 of the 2TB drives to see what OMSA shows.   OMSA shows unsupported and the drive size is showing 232 GB instead of 2TB...any suggestions? Thanks for any help! ID 0:1:2 Status Non-Critical Name Physical Disk 0:1:2 State Unsupported Power Status Spun Up Bus Protocol SAS Media HDD Revision K002 T10 PI Capable No Certified No Capacity 232.38GB Used RAID Disk Space 0.00GB Available RAID Disk Space 232.38GB Hot Spare No Vendor ID SEAGATE Product ID ST2000NX0263 Serial No. S460194C Negotiated Speed 6.00 Gbps Capable Speed Not Available Sector Size 512B SAS Address 5000C50088BFFF09
Upgrading from SATA 1TB drive to SAS 2TB drive in R620 server