Can a RAID created by Disk Utility be connected to another Mac?

Hi There,
We're looking to upgrade our workstation storage (4x workstations) and have recently had issues with third-party RAID cards and third-party RAID enclosures.
If we were to purchase a JBOD enclosure and use Disk Utility to create the RAID, would the RAID be recognised on different Macs if the enclosures were moved around? I realise performance would suffer compared with dedicated hardware RAID.
The main reason for using disk utility is that the smaller 4-5 disk enclosures don't seem to have RAID 10 and we've noticed a rebuild issue with 2 of our RAID 5 enclosures. After reseraching online, it turns out to be an issue inherent with RAID 5/6 (bad sectors causing issues on rebuild).
So we're thinking of buying enclosures with JBOD, then using Disk Utility to create RAID 10.
Hope that makes sense, any help or suggestions would be much appreciated.
Cheers
Ben

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