The H710 controller wasn't tested in the 11G server family, so I can't speak to whether or not it will work there. However, the connectors appear to be the same, and both should be a 6Gbps SAS connection, I don't believe 12Gbps SAS was introduced until the 13G. All that to say that I don't think that backplane and controller communication will be a problem, but controller and the rest of the system may be. As for the PERC 6i and the H700, as far as I am aware, the PERC 6i doesn't support drives above 2TB, but the H700 should. I am going back through documentation to see if anything indicates that statement is incorrect, and I'll edit my post, if that's the case.
Hello, I am trying to upgrade the Raid card in my PowerEdge R710 (Perc 6/i) and I am interested in going to a Perc H710 raid card but im wondering if it will work with the older backplane. the reason for the upgrade is because I want to run 4TB+ HDDs and the current Perc 6/i will only see up to 2TB. I know I could upgrade to the Perc H700 but I have heard that it has the same limitation and only supports up to 2TB as well.
Dell PowerEdge R710 Raid card upgrade to Perc H710