Removing Raid card from MacPro5,1, will that damage system drive?

I inherited an older MacPro5,1 which has a RAID card in it, but it's complaining that the RAID battery is dead.  I don't want to RAID the drives in it anyway, but I'm not sure how to proceed at this point.  Do I just power the machine down, remove the RAID card, then the machine will pick it up as 4 individual drives the next time it boots?

Mac Pro (Early 2009) RAID Card: Identification and compatibility - Apple Support
As shown in the article, the older card uses an iPass cable, not available in 2009 and later models.

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