420614M TD100x use SS SATA II drives

Hi all,
Have heard you can flash the Raid board so it will use SS SATA drives instead of the expensive HS SAS Drives as the SS SATA Drives certainly plug in perfectly.
Anyone done or heard of this?
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according to the TD100x system service parts page (found here), it can already use simple-swap hard drives.   or, are you asking about something else?
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