Is my iMac too old for Yosemite?

hi all,
i recently wiped my imac clean and partitioned my boot drive into two:
- one running os 10.6.x for music and protools (my version of which is only supported up to 10.6.9)
- another running yosemite (10.10) for the rest of my stuff.
every time i've wiped my system completely clean in the past, it bounces back running like a dream. this time, it's intolerably slow. i have a few hypotheses per why i wanted to post here before spending another full day investigating. in order of most to least likely:
1) migrating applications (esp adobe suite et al) back into yosemite with the migration assistant rather than reinstalling from scratch
2) yosemite not being a good OS for a circa-2009/non-solid state HD
3) two partitions with two versions of OSX installed on boot drive
4) insufficient free space on yosemite disk
here are screenshots from activity monitor and hardware overview. should i be thinking about installing a solid state drive in my DVD slot? uninstalling and reinstalling major applications from scratch? reverting back to 10.7 or 8 on my primary drive?
i would really, really appreciate any wisdom yall have to share. thank you!!
alec
imac, late 2009, 21.5"
3.06 intel core 2 duo
16gb ram
nvidia geforce 9400 256mb

hey mike! here's etrecheck's stats. btw, i have eight tabs open in chrome; nothing too crazy.
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