Possible HDD bottleneck

Sep 15, 2018
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My pc has only two parts that have not been updated in 4 years, the RAM: dual channel 8gb ddr3, and the HDD, 1 tb WD blue. The other components are a GTX 970 and a i5 4460.
I have been experiencing very long load times and general low down of the widnows interface even ater boot, in the Battlefield 5 beta and Battlefield 1 games I am getting frames below 60 fps with the lowest possible settings. I know my cpu and gpu are not the problems because their workload is normal and other users with my same config and ram are able to run battlefiled 1 on ultra with stable 60 fps.
What would you suggest doing? (I have already used auslogics defragger).