What rack mount server are you using? Usually the answer is no, Dell puts a firmware update on their drives that make it to where Dell servers will only read off of those drives.
Up until around 2011 you were able to purchase off brand (or other branded) drives and put them in rack mount servers and their Equallogic storage systems. At some point a few years back they started putting specific firmware on their drives that made it to where you could not put a drive in a Dell branded server without that special firmware.
Try it - I know for a fact it doesn't work with their Equallogic brands, but i have yet to try and replace a rack mount drive with another branded drive.