After Effects Rendering too long

I am trying to make about a 7 second clip of some photography (converted into that cool 3D paralax effect) with a lens flare and a CC light rays effect. The damn thing took two hours and was less than halfway done, which seemed extremely long to me. Here is my setup:
i7 4770 (2 processes for system, and 6 for AE, with 2 gigs per process)
Nvidia 760 4bg
32 gigs ram (4 set aside for system and the rest for Creative Cloud stuff)
SSD: system, media cache
HDD: projects, files
Everything else I've tried to render has been reasonable times. For instance 5 minute clips usually take about 15 minutes. I've tried variations of the multiprocessing tab to no avail, and changing the media cache to HDD which didn't work also. Just seems like something is going terrible wrong.
So I guess my question is twofold.
1) How important would it be to get another drive? (I'm between adding one SSD or getting 2 HDD's per my budget, which presents another question of would a 2 SSD, 1 HDD setup be better than a 1 SSD, 3 HDD setup)
2) Do I possibly have something configured wrong?
Thanks in advance!

If your comp is huge, that could certainly explain it.
Also, your assets should only be as large as they will ever be in the screen. That is to say, once you've got them clipped out how you want them in Photoshop, you should save a copy of the asset that have been resized down to 1920 wide or 1080 high max. Although, if you're planning to scale it up in AE or move the camera closer to it, adjust that number to whatever you need. Basically, the smaller your assets, the quicker AE will be able to work. (In most situations.)

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