I buy retail drives when they sorta make sense, but took a chance on serverpartsdeals when I built my first dedicated NAS (TrueNAS Scale) in August. I bought 5 manufacturer refurbed 12TB WD UltraStars and they live in a ZFS RAID Z2.
I had one fail a long smart test about a month in and...
it's sorta tangentially related to this topic: If you have a Prime membership and log into Twitch with it, you can get a free copy of Deathloop in your Epic Games Store library.
I decided I am going to wait on RYZEN 8000X3D CPUs, unless the 14700k gets a price drop REALLY soon. I will sell off my 12700k CPU and motherboard, replace it with my 7800X3D CPU in a B650E board.
I switched when the 7800X3D launched because I had the money and saw the uplift, even at 4K which I play at on my LG C1. Starfield is something else and g-sync makes it very smooth. I'm also glad to be on another platform that will upgrade-able for the next few years