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For me, that is an important advantage of a drive pool.  I am hesitant about becoming locked in to a proprietary data format.  For example, if my Synology NAS developed a terminal problem, the only way that I could access my data would be to buy another Synology NAS and transfer the disks to it (even if I had already decided that I did not want another Synology NAS!).

But don't forget the other advantages:

(1) Can use disks of differing sizes.

(2) Can expand the size of the pool by simply plugging in another disk.

-- from CyberSimian in the UK