Disc icons on RAID disc

I just mounted two seagate 500Gb discs on my Mac Pro. I used the raid option to make them work as backup but so far I haven't started adding any data
I'd like however to change the icon of the disk from the default to something else. Although I've done this quite a few times with various other external drtives, I think that I can't change the icon of the raid group. Can I change the icon or am I stuck with the default?

Wait, case may not be closed...
You say you configured the RAID to work as a backup. There is no RAID configuration that can possibly be used as a backup. So I am hoping you are not relaying on a mirrored RAID set as a backup.
The reason a mirrored RAID is not a backup, is because no data is ever retained when a file is changed or deleted. That is, the process of making a change to a file, or deleting a file is replicated on all drives that make up the RAID set. If you accidently delete your checkbook data, it's gone, you can't get it back from your RAID set. If you need to look at files to see what you were doing two months ago, and you have made changes to those files since then, poof, it is gone, no way to return to that data.
Mirrored RAID is not a backup. It's main purpose is to provide redundancy of hardware to insure that if a drive should fail that you can continue to operate with all data intact, as you make any needed hardware repairs or replacements. Mirrored RAIDS are to hep insure the maximum amount of uptime on your data storage system.
So if your intent was to use a mirrored RAID array for backup, please reconsider. If you were instead using the mirrored array as it was intended, please forgive my slight rant about what mirrored RAIDs are for.
Thanks,
Tom N.

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