I love the JABBA barrels!
Who doesn't like the look of a wall of barrels filled from the sifting setup? Yes, end game an ME system is more convenient but until then I gotta get me some barrels
take jabba out, I put jabba back in. end of story. jabba says wookie and soh-low will die soon.
I go as far as setup my jabbas in a way that I can add storage busses to them when I get ME setup to save on costs of disks, etc.. Do that all the time in all packs pretty much. and yes, wall of barrels are awesome.
Early game, they are a godsend to keep from having rows and rows of chests of cobble or what not and at some point, the sound of opening/closing a chest becomes nails on the wall.