If you can afford it, and I'd even suggest forgoing the HDD to save cost for this, try get a very fast read/write m.2 ssd for your operating system, because those things can really make a difference in boot times and file saves/loads.
Honestly, the fastest way to go would be an m.2 drive like this guy, We put one in my fiance's pc and it really has no bottlenecks, and with 500 gigs, it's got plenty of room to also hold the aps you use most often. It is a bit pricey, which is why I'd say get this one and only one of the others, or for the original build, forgo any others and just steal whatever you had in your old system, if that's possible.
at $200, it looks like memory like this has really come down in price from early 2017.
(07-12-2018, 09:14 PM)Unseelie Wrote: That SSD, for example, is very expensive.
A bit over 100$ for 500 GB sounds about what you'd expect considering its usually 20-30 cents per GB for more budget SSDs, not quite sure were hes getting 190 from since the link for me shows 109. (unless he made a typo)