[JohnFen]

I'm not questioning those statistics, really. Nonetheless I'll continue to go with my own experience on this. I typically have hard drives in use for 7-10 years or so before replacing them for something with higher capacity. This has never caused any issue. And when I replace a hard drive, I keep the old one in storage as an extra backup. I've copied data off of 20+ year old drives from storage without a problem before (although that's a bit different than using them daily).

In any case, should a hard drive fail, it's not of great significance because of redundancy and backups. Also, spinning platter drives usually give plenty of warning of impending failures.

Used hard drives remain very attractive to me.