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- 2017 15" MBP, 16gig ram, 1TB SSD, OS 10.15
Sorry, I'm not trying to be a jerk, but would definitely agree about replacing your hard drive, and would not install anything less than a 7200-rpm HDD
Or as has been suggested, installing a decent-sized 7200 RPM HDD PLUS maybe an additional SSD. Then use the latter as a boot drive.
Your installed 16GB RAM should be more than enough for the type of work you seem to do, and redoing thermal paste as suggestion should be completely unnecessary on a 7 year old Mac, and certainly not recommended for somebody to do who does not do it regularly.
I would strongly recommend first thing that you have and use a new external hard drive and use CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner) to clone your existing drive to make a bootable backup.
Once that is done and tested, you could also try just erasing your existing Boot Drive and use the new CCC clone to clone your backup to your freshly erased boot Drive. That alone would probably speed things up drastically.
PPS: The above are not any jerk type comments, but things I know that work from 30+ years working with and supporting Macs.
PPPS: when was the last time you did some Mac maintenance like booting up using Safe Boot Mode and restarting, which alone will throw out a lot of crap and organize other stuff, and may even help speeding things up.
Great suggestions Patrick...always good to have a logical plan...especially before replacing & upgrading to a new drive.
Thanks,
- Nick