Is it a good idea to purchase refurbished HDDs off Amazon ? - Lemmy.World

I see some fairly interesting prices for refurbished drives on Amazon, 35~40% cheaper than new. Example here: 16TB Seagate Exos X18 Refurbished at 166€ [https://www.amazon.de/-/en/ST16000NM000J/dp/B0CF5XVHMS/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=C8zvf&content-id=amzn1.sym.e5fa7538-1d1f-45c5-b044-fe57f5d0e8c3&pf_rd_p=e5fa7538-1d1f-45c5-b044-fe57f5d0e8c3&pf_rd_r=XY7VR7MTFYXCNMZJKDF6&pd_rd_wg=5u1L8&pd_rd_r=dda3fc0c-c271-42f3-9cf9-2a69965d1ced&ref_=pd_hp_d_btf_cr_cartx&th=1] and New at 260€ [https://www.mindfactory.de/product_info.php/16TB-Seagate-Exos-X18-ST16000NM000J-256MB-3-5Zoll--8-9cm--SATA_1412103.html]. I am considering this option for my home NAS, running with BTRFS RAID10, plus important files are backed-up to a cloud storage, but not my media collection. In your opinion, how risky is it to use refurbished drives ? Do you have to good or bad experience doing so ?