Based on what you've said in your post, I'd grab the H310. It has the ability to enter passthrough mode, whereas the H710 and H710P do not.
Now, you may still run into issues with drive recognition on unvalidated drives. Consumer grade drives do seem to have the most frequent issues, but 3rd party drives aren't something I work with enough to help with any perspective. Generally speaking, if they get picked up, they'll run fine. I've seen a few that liked to go up and down, but mostly not.
If for whatever reason you can't get the H310, you'd want to look at an HBA, instead of a RAID controller.
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Hi Chris,
Based on what you've said in your post, I'd grab the H310. It has the ability to enter passthrough mode, whereas the H710 and H710P do not.
Now, you may still run into issues with drive recognition on unvalidated drives. Consumer grade drives do seem to have the most frequent issues, but 3rd party drives aren't something I work with enough to help with any perspective. Generally speaking, if they get picked up, they'll run fine. I've seen a few that liked to go up and down, but mostly not.
If for whatever reason you can't get the H310, you'd want to look at an HBA, instead of a RAID controller.