I’m not - that’s a used price.

I don’t have a problem with used - all my drives are used, and they typically last 5-10 years. I have some drives from 2010 that are still running.

New drives fail too, so relying on drives being new to prevent failures is foolish. The only defense against failures is duplication (which 3-2-1 backup falls under).

Whats just as important is to use a file system that can detect and repair data errors (such as ZFS).