End 2011 15 "Macbook Pro SSD vs Hybrid SSD

I have a MacBook Pro (15 inch, late 2011), 2.4 GHz Intel Core i7, 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 with a 750 GB SATA hard drive.

Since the upgrade to El Capitan (and I even thought of this way with Yosemite) my computer has SLOWED down considerably. Start-up time takes a few minutes and a few process kill me they are so slow. I work a lot with biomedical research, Adobe Lightroom and Illustrator software and is considering an upgrade for my Macbook Pro.

After reading about the upgrade to an SSD hard drive option, I came to a few questions:

Should I give up the optical drive and replace it with a SSD while also keeping my current hard drive? An SSD hard drive hybrid?

Is exchanging a better option than that on the current hard drive with an SSD or a hybrid?

The ultimate goal is SPEED. I store most of my pictures and research on storage cloud or servers to work as long I have 250 to 500 GB hard disk space (more we're crazy), I'm glad. It is the speed I'm after.

Upgrade memory would help me as well? What is worth?

Thank you!

For speed - SSD hands down. Hybrid hard drives do not have enough RAM flash to have the kind of impact the performance as an SSD. My experience is that people swear that by or swear systems that replace the optical drive with another drive. Personally, I would go with the largest affordable SSD and operate as the 500 GB SSD prices fell so much last year.

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