> With the absolutely deplorable reliability of drives
> >1TB why would one even waste their money? The 500GB
> RE2/3 and NS drives are very reliable and <$.12/gb. I
> get new drives off ebay all the time.

Perhaps because you only have X number of drive bays, and your dataset is 
larger than the current size of the pool?  Whereby the only easy way to expand 
the pool is to increase the size of the drives.
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