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I'm just a hobbyist, so my system is fine (no 4k).
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I guess if I were buying today, I'd try to find a system with an SSD (for OS and programs) and a more recent GPU (not that rendering has been a bottleneck, but I know that keeping up with recent speeds helps prevent early obsolescence). I don't think I'll buy another system until I can afford a significantly faster CPU (for editing).
I'm also just a hobbyist. It looks like your system should be about half again as fast as mine.
I'm of two minds about an SSD. It would certainly make some things faster, but not actual editing. I don't think either still or video editing come close to making my HD sweat. Managing two volumes can be a pain—the space you need is always in the wrong place.
Having a boot drive too small to hold my existing system would make migration a lot more difficult, too. If the new boot drive has room for my all of my old stuff, I can do a bare metal recovery from a backup. If I have to split the existing system up, things get more complicated.
From what I can tell, most cases only have two drive bays; so with an SSD and an HD, I wouldn't have room for an additional HD. I also wouldn't have any way to set up a RAID.
I have some thinking to do.
Jerry Schwartz