COTS = Common Off The Shelf?? It depends. I would recommend against any consumer/desktop/laptop or NAS drives (like the WD Red). Use enterprise-class SATA if not Dell-certified. As long as your H700 firmware is more recent than 7/2010 (?), then non-certified drives will be allowed, but no non-certified drive is guaranteed to work.
Can I use off-the-shelf (non-Dell) SATA drives in a PowerEdge R810 server with PERC H700 RAID controller? We currently have Dell SAS drives fitted which will remain in their own virtual disk, and wish to add bulk storage space as a second virtual disk using cheaper SATA drives. (We have latest BIOS & firmware throughout)
Can I use COTS Sata drives in PERC H700 on R810?