Windows 10: Computer ridiculously slow - do I need an SSD?

Okay, so some background. I've had this PC for only a couple years, pre-built from one of those companies that prebuilds for you (can't remember name, dad suggested it). For note, here are the specs:



MSI X99S SLI Krait Edition motherboard

i7-5820K @ 3.30GHz 6 core

16GB Ram

GTX 970



From what I remember, it ran decent enough in the beginning but I vaguely recall some complaints. Still as time has gone it's gone down hill and it's incredibly sluggish. Over the past couple of months, I've been researching guide after guide of tweaks and addressing a disk usage problem (more below) and make things faster, and while I've had some improvement, overall it's still slow. It boots up slow, transfers data slow, updates slow. I can still play most games with good framerate, although some stutter quite a bit.



I've watched my temps under load, nothing ever too hot for recommended. I've watched the usage in task manager and resource monitor, and CPU has never been high. RAM has hit 100% but it's typically when something like a game or program is memory leaking hardcore.



But disk usage has been a problem of regularly hitting 100%. As I mentioned, I have spent a lot of time researching that specific problem and have had minor improvement, but not enough and not without some sacrifices that shouldn't have to be.



Pressing start/w-key sometimes doesn't work or takes incredibly long. Right clicking for context menu is the same and file explorer goes non responsive as often as nuns pray. In times where I've had super low performance, I've opened resource monitor and just watched and I find often that when I have heavy disk writes (particularly Chrome to the cache and System Volume Information) is when performance is slow, and when those finish, things seem to get better. Not perfect, still have many of the same issues, but usable.



I do make sure it's often updated and yes, I've reset my PC a few times over the years now (for one reason or another) and it's never seemed to have helped.



All this is what's made me wonder, could I just be in desperate need of an SSD? This PC runs off of a single 1TB mechanical HDD that I've had since day 1. If not, is there anything you could recommend? I have tried almost everything ever suggested and had no luck, and I would just really love to have my PC moving fast again. Would never complain again about the day 1 performance knowing it could be this bad.



Sorry for the long post. Let me know if I need to run any diagnostics or provide any more info.

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