Trying to decide on diffusion pump

I am pretty small scale. I have a 2in pope and a slapped together 10l short path. I’ve been upgrading slowly as I can afford. One bottleneck at a time.
I have an ok pump for each system, and a roughing pump. What I’m considering is grabbing another roughing pump and a:

Welch ProBoost or a Diffstak.

I’m leaning towards the Proboost, because it’s more plug’n’play, however I feel it may give me issues if I have any vac fluctuations while running…

I’m leaving towards an ebay Diffstak because its cheap and more of what I want because it seems more durable, but I would have to get another pump/machine to chill it. Summits’ diff is a great option with the acc, it makes it simple, but i think its just a hair out of range with what else I need.

Looking for input.

The diffstaks are tanks and there’s always tons available used. I have no experience with the welch unit though

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