I would avoid using 2nd hand disks
Any particular reason? - even new disks can fail.
Surely it depends on the use case? While I wouldn't put 2nd hand disks in my Database servers or even for my file server (which are 100% business critical), for test environments and other roles (where even a failure would be just an inconvenience), then I don't see the issue.
Also we never use single disks - even for test enviroments, it is always RAID1 or RAID10, and if there is room a Hot Spare - a failure becomes an inconvenience, albeit a £25 vs £150 inconvenience (E.g. for a HP 2.5 146Gb).
Enterprise disks tend to be better quality (longer MTBF etc), and on the whole better looked after (proper cooling in data centres or server rooms etc.) than consumer disks, which I wouldn't dream of buying 2nd hand.
If anything because our 2nd hand disks can come from separate sources, overall reliability could be slightly better, as they come from different batches, have different wear characteristics, and so are perhaps less likely to fail at the same time.