Although I am not an expert in this field, I have now (2022) made the decision to purchase a few extra terabytes. I loaded this disk to use as a comparison. For disks in 2022, 7200 rpm with a 64 meter buffer and an access time of 8.5 ms is pretty nice. Image of one of them from a screen:
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