If it's an HDD then it likely has shingled magnetic recording - SMR, a technology used to cram more storage but the downside is a tremendous performance penalty. Like XX seconds to sync a single modern block. Mostly useless for a node. Storage space may have gotten cheaper but at a performance cost that makes these SMR drives unusable.
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Disk read / write bandwidth is a big deal…I’m not certain bitcoin core is well optimized in terms of disk read/write