Mount point in /volumes won't delete when unmounting

I have latest Mavericks on my rMBP (10.9.4). The issue I'm having has been going on for a while now. Basically when I unmount my external RAID array upon sleep with Jettison (or without it) the mount point in /Volumes folder doesn't get deleted prompting incremented names after I remount the drive such as /Volumes/drive1, /Volumes/drive2, /Volumes/drive3, etc. I can delete names manually but it's a bit of a pain, plus certain programs depend on that drive. Is there anything that can be done here?
If it helps, my drive is actually NTFS but I modified the OS to write to it and it seems to work fine for a while now. Thanks.

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File System : Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Connection Bus : USB
Device Tree : IODeviceTree:/PCI0@0/USB7@1D,7
Writable : Yes
Universal Unique Identifier : CED756E6-8A72-33BB-B79B-469908923E54
Capacity : 999.16 GB (999,157,620,736 Bytes)
Owners Enabled : No
Can Turn Owners Off : Yes
Can Be Formatted : Yes
Bootable : Yes
Supports Journaling : Yes
Journaled : No
Disk Number : 1
Partition Number : 2
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Invalid node structure
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Error: Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.
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Mount Point : Not mounted Capacity : 999.16 GB (999,157,620,736 Bytes)
Format : Mac OS Extended (Journaled) Available : -
Owners Enabled : - Used : -
Number of Folders : - Number of Files : -
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