This was true when a tray of disk was 10s of thousands of dollars. In the world of 32TB SSDs that are tens of thousands of dollars for a single disk, not so mu

This was true when a tray of disk was 10s of thousands of dollars. In the world of 32TB SSDs that are tens of thousands of dollars for a single disk, not so much. As drives have gotten larger, the need to add only a handful of drives to an existing RAID set has become a desirable feature even for enterprises.