CRUSH algorithms are used to overcome rebuild limits in modern arrays. https://www.ssrc.ucsc.edu/Papers/weil-sc06.pdf
In effect, you get the total bandwidth of (N-1) HDD's working in parallel. And the bandwidth of 100 HDD's doing sequential IO in parallel is really massive ( ~ 10 GB/s).
Examples of companies claiming to use this approach are Qumulo (rebuild in couple of hours), Infinidat (couple of 10's of minutes), ClusterStor GridRAID (now part of Seagate I think), or "Declustered RAID" in GPFS (IBM)
Thanks for pointing out that declustered/distributed rebuild RAID has many historical precedents (also 3PAR BTW) pre-CRUSH/Ceph.