Is it safe to get a refurbished HDD?

[Vinyl530]

Would it be safe to get this.. (I mean its $15 what a deal why not)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236964

 

[dudeman509]

I wouldn't trust important data to it.

 

[Tcinator]

the warranty is 3 months.... it is truly a gamble it could be useful for 2 years or more, or it could die after 4 months and you would be out $15. totally your call. there is no way to guess your chances honestly.

 

[cody_mckee]

I say $15 for 320 Gb, go for it. But with that being said, don't put anything important on it.

These refurbished HDD are always a roll of the dice, but offer a great value for an HTPC, or whatever you grandma checks Facebook on.

Quite a while back I bought 5 80Gb WD IDE drives. I received drives that were produced from 2002 up to 2008. I ran some SMART test on some of them that I set up in an Lubuntu machine for playing around with free Linux games. (An old HP Pentium 4 SFF) One of the 5 disks was reporting 10 years of powered on time, but it is still working fine. It doesn't even make that much noise.