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CTM-628 pd-balanced boot disks are actually pretty good - #4925

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Take advantage of pd-balanced "baseline performance" of 3,000 IOPS + 140 MiBps [0].

Those (great) performance figures are suspiciously identical to Hyperdisk Balanced [1], the newest disk type.

Indeed, pd-balanced got this upgrade in 2022 [2] just before Hyperdisk GA [3]; perhaps it's now implemented on a shared platform with Hyperdisk.

250 GB pd-standard: 30 MiB/s, 188 IOPS read, 375 IOPS write
100 GB pd-balanced: 168 MiB/s, 3,600 IOPS read/write

[0] https://docs.cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/performance#baseline_performance
[1] https://docs.cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/hd-types/hyperdisk-balanced#default-perf
[2] https://docs.cloud.google.com/compute/docs/release-notes-archive#November_14_2022
[3] https://docs.cloud.google.com/compute/docs/release-notes-archive#March_13_2023

Testing to do: evaluate against scenarios in #3594 to make sure we have enough space for large custom images. The free space math changed significantly with #4922.

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