Hello   The PERC 6i cannot address drives larger than 2TB. If you use drives larger than 2TB it may only address 2TB of the drive or the drive may not function at all.   If it is a lab and performance is not a concern then I would use RAID 5. RAID 5 will give more capacity at the cost of performance.   We only validate/certify our drives. Validation is the process of confirming functionality. Since we don't validate those drives I can't say whether or not they will work. It will be trial and error. We do not block non-certified drives from working on the PERC 6i. Thanks
Hi everyone, I need some help upgrade the storage on my R710 : I currently have a Perc 6/i 256MB cache with 6 15K 300GB SAS HDDs. I'd like to upgrade to the following config if possible: - 4 3TB HDDs for storage in RAID 10 (or should I go with Raid 5 ?) - 2 500GB SSDs for system (RAID 1) I use this server at home as a test lab and for my home network and I have limited budget so I might not be able to buy enterprise class SAS drive . So can I just buy SATA drives like the Samsung Evo SSDs and some WD Red ? Will it work with the Perc 6i 256 or do I need to upgrade ?  Thank you for your answers ! 
R710 Perc 6/I SSD ideas