I’ve recently bought a drive from Amazon warehouse. I haven’t used much other than for the initialization. Overall all of the used hard drives I’ve bought from Amazon continue to work to this day. Some hard drives I’ve bought from Ebay have had issues. I was able to fix one by shucking, but sadly the data was lost from the previous methods I tried. I have another drive that was dead on arrival. One of my most recent drives died alongside with my laptop. I was able to get my laptop fixed via warranty. I sent my hard drive in to Salvage Data for an evaluation, but the lowest estimated quote was around $2500, I only paid for it to be sent back, I may reopen the case to have it fixed in the future.