Mac Studio has USB-A connections. See below for the back-side I/O connections. Front-side I/O varies by model.
As for performance, HDDs are somewhere between slow and glacial, and older drives tend toward yet slower, and tend toward capacities well behind current, and tend toward failures as the HDDs age. What do I mean by this performance? Fast HDDs will do 150 to 200 I/O operations per second. Slow SSDs will do 100,000 I/O operations per second. The internal SSDs on recent Macs are just silly-fast, too. You probably don’t have those “fast” 15K RPM HDDs here, either.
HDDs are basically big and cheap and slow storage in this era, and are still useful for archival storage, and for near-line backups, and as backup targets. On a gonzo-fast Mac? Your Mac, your call, obviously.
The sun is the same in a relative way, but these HDDs are older, shorter of breath, and years closer to death.