Improve the speed of my Mac

I work on a Mac Pro (2009) with a 2.93 GHz Quad - Core Processor and I noticed that my Mac seems to be much slower to perform tasks when that I start last year. I have 8 GB of memory, an NVIDIA GeForce 521 MB graphics card, my HD has a capacity of 640 GB and I am currently using 287GB, more I have as a second HDD 640 GB and use 251GB. I'm also using OS X El Capitan, 10.11.3.

My mac seems to make a lot of noises (as is the treatment things) for a good one a few minutes after it lights. Any thoughts on why it is or is just getting old and obsolete?

My library has 104GB on it and I wonder if this causes problems, and if these check out would help performance?

I'm a Graphic Designer that uses mainly the CC of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign, as well as all of my fonts to sit in a suitcase to the police officer.

Any help would be appreciated. I run disk help and cleaned the two discs.

See you soon

Your Mac is highly scalable. Photoshop and probably other applications will be benifid by:

-More memory

-A better graphics card, you can even use a lot of PC, but PC cards do not give you a splash screen
Tip: Mac cards replacement Graphics Pro money Tour (2006-2012)
http://forums.MacRumors.com/showthread.php?t=1440150

PhotoShop and other Adobe applications to make better use of the NVidia cards from AMD/ATI cards

-You can install a quick blade PCle SSD-based
The SSD to 'Classic' Mac Pro training
You can install a USB3 PCle card, but note that you can not boot from a USB device connected to the card USB3

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