Raid5/50 for duplication only?

[myktek]

So my DrivePool is about ~50tb and I just came into a new chassis, raid controller and 10+ 3tb drives.  I do plan to migrate everything to the new chassis.

I was thinking about creating a raid 50 from some of the drives and use it just for folder duplication.

 

Has anyone tried that?

I know I can do software raid with other software, but I have this nice controller and all these drives, so just thinking I might do Raid50 for backups and folder duplication.

[Christopher (Drashna)]

There shouldn't be any issues with doing so.  The RAID controller will present the array as a physical drive to the system, so StableBit DrivePool should pick that up just fine.  

 

However, StableBit Scanner won't pick up the SMART info for the drives within the RAID array.