8 and 16 disk RAID 10 span question when using Dell H700 controller

Build the raid, load a copy of win2008r2 server without a key in eval mode.  Pull one of the drives.  Pull another one on another pair.  It should still be running. 
Once you're convinced that it's good to go, put the drives back in, blow away the config in the controller and set it back up the same way.  Then load whatever hypervisor you're going to put on it. 

Bear with me on this one! I've avoided RAID for long enough and I'm needing some advice. I have a number of Dell R710 servers with PERC H700 controllers. With the exception of one server which is an R720, all have a capacity of 8 SAS drives (with the oddball having a capacity of 16). Most of these were configured with RAID 5 just before my arrival at the organization. With some new 600GB drive purchases this month, I plan on moving all our servers to a RAID 10 config. So my question is about spans and how to arrange them across connectors (is that the right terminology?). So if I have 8 drives, with 0-4 being on connector 1, and 5-7 being on connector 2, and assuming 2 disk per span, would the correct way to arrange each span look like the screenshot below? That would reduce the likelihood of data loss due to a bad cable right? I'd...
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