Hi Jay, just saw your notes …
Hardware looks good (don’t know about AMD), enough RAM, GPU is faster than my GTX1060 and you have fast drives installed. Make sure, you run defrag… regularly – and keep backups not on your machine.
I have everything OS and program related on C:\ (500GB M2 NVME), that includes all photo software, while things like Database + Cache (PL, ON1), LR’s catalogue(s) and … reside on another NVME for immediate access. Important personal data, downloads, pics etc are stored on a quiet & reliable datagrave.
To backup C:\ I use a program and everything else gets saved manually → see …