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It wasn't that long ago that it was generally accepted that you shouldn't buy secondhand/refurbished drives. The world seems to have turned upside down.
consumer grade vs Enterprise grade. the letter are meant to run non-stop and are often just discarded due to upgrade, not due to problems.
Businesses replace drives and systems on a schedule regardless of true wear on them - their risk vs cost metric is very different than ours.
So used business hardware is a great value for those of us who have a sunk cost in labor/expertise.
Most drives I've owned have run for 10+ years, while any business won't run them past 5. I can take the risk of losing a drive, while it's more important for a business to prevent losing a drive. Business disruption is a more costly event.
I wouldn’t buy SATA drives second hand, but I’ve had second hand SAS drives in my server for nearly 8 years running as a ZFS pool without a problem.
Sure, in a ultra-consumerist world, everybody buy all things new. Now that hard drives cost a kidney, you buy refurbished ones, and you realize that it's not that bad, especially if you use the right mitigations.
And that's a trend that may grow and spread to other things, considering that mondialisation will get increasingly difficult due to geopolitics troubles, and petrol becoming costlier over the next years/decades.