I think if you're in the market for 32TB drives, you're already using 20TB ones instead of 8. With 8+2 at 20TB you pay for 200TB and get 160TB usable. With 7+3

I think if you're in the market for 32TB drives, you're already using 20TB ones instead of 8. With 8+2 at 20TB you pay for 200TB and get 160TB usable. With 7+3 at 32TB you pay for 320TB and have 224TB available. That's 160% of TB paid for and only 140% of TB usable. HMR will need to be a sizable 12.5% discount per terabyte just to break even there. If you only do 5+3 to keep the same 160T available, it's 256TB or 128% paid for and the same 100% usable, so an even steeper 22% discount to break even.