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If you've got the space in your desktop case, an SAS card and used enterprise drive is a solid bet but probably not the cheapest if you're only adding a single drive
Used drives are prone to failure, at minimum I would use 3 of them in raid5 to avoid data loss
If it's just a storage drive I wouldn't even spin it up except to store or retrieve data, but you're certainly correct that they're riskier. You can test drives, of course, but there's a risk.
Skip the SAS so you don't need a separate card, use SATA enterprise drives and it's smooth sailing.