Buying iMac 27'' (from resale perspective)

Hello all,
I want to buy a new iMac 27'' and would like to keep it for atleast 5 years. Keeping aside what I would be using it for and talking only about resale value, which of the following hard disk configuration would be better
Fusion 1TB
Fusion 3TB
SSD 512GB
Wrt  space requirements, I am storing my music and videos on a NAS drive.  So I do not need much space locally. Keeping resale in mind, these are my thoughts about the three.
Fusion 1TB - Fusion drives could be obselete soon with falling SSD price; I might fill the space eventually
Fusion 3TB  - Fusion drives could be obselete soon with falling SSD price; I will never fill this space
SSD 512GB - State of art technology perhaps even in 5 years, but too less space in 5 years during resale. I might end up having space issues as well
What would you recommend here?

The real question is whether or not it’s worth it. I'm personally a much bigger fan of going all solid state.   Fusion Drive doesn't do anything to mitigate the likelihood that a hard drive will likely fail sooner than a good SSD, whereas if you go with an internal SSD and external Thunderbolt or  USB 3.0 HDD RAID NAS array you can control your destiny much better. With a Fusion Drive you don't have that flexibility.

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