Dell PERC H710 Mini: support for third party drives?

Hello,

Does anyone know whether or not this machine will accept third party drives? I read this:

http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/servers/f/906/p/19324790/19689719.aspx

and this:

http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/123346-dell-raid-controller-perc-h700-blocking-non-dell-certified-hdds?started_from=new_topic

and I assume that it would also apply but wanted to see if anyone else had encountered this.