What the bleep is the problem?

My computer has suffered from sluggish behavior for over 8 months. The problem comes and goes for the most part mostly stays. Anyway my good friend and computer guru kept on that it was the RAM. The ever succession of upgrades occured each time with bad behavior occuring. Then the system got very bad and my friend was out of answers. He did say go to one of the old conficurations of RAM and then see.
I am not sure if that helped or hurt but from what I can tell by doing that things seem to escalate. I went back to the current configuration just to return to my old problems.
There are four DIMM slots and for me I have 16gigs in three. Since going to four 2gigs did not help the situtation I ruled out RAM. I directed my attention to the HD. I have a clone which I worked off of for a couple of days an it was a relevation. The beach ball was non existent. With the normal boot drive the beach was a common thing.
I then said it had to be the HD. Cut to a new HD and today I am building my drive from scratch when the same problems arrise.
What is going on? Do I have to go to the shop?
BF

I had done a clean install recently before  making my clone and still my current HD caused problems.  Basically I feel that given the track record it was not the HD as the same thing should not happen to two internal drives one being new and not one external clone. Normally I would restore from the clone but given all the stuff I had been through and what happened today the problem was elsewhere IMO.
BF

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