So basically I want to rebuild your whole system :( Based on current day
technology (e.g. bottle necks) my opinion is you start building by picking
out the fastest boot/root drive, then build from there:

The usual suspects for new system building:
https://pcpartpicker.com/
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/
https://www.harddrivebenchmark.net/

> 1 Seagate (sg) 500g ssd root / boot drive (sda)

If you have to change out the motherboard, you want an NVMe root / boot drive.
Go with:

Drives: https://www.harddrivebenchmark.net/high_end_drives.html

$230
Samsung SSD 980 PRO 1TB
Average Drive Rating: 32629
https://www.harddrivebenchmark.net/hdd.php?hdd=Samsung%20SSD%20980%20PRO%201TB&id=26857

Literally build the rest of the system around that. There is literally no
better drive than this at the moment.

CPU: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

$1,000
Intel Core i9-10980XE @ 3.00GHz
Average CPU Mark: 34274
Single Thread Rating: 2643
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i9-10980XE+%40+3.00GHz&id=3630

That’s a POS! Okay, not really, but here are better bangs for the buck:

$1,350
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X
Average CPU Mark: 55373
Single Thread Rating: 2703
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Ryzen+Threadripper+3960X&id=3617

$550
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
Average CPU Mark: 39700
Single Thread Rating: 3537
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Ryzen+9+5900X&id=3870

If your stuff is mostly single threaded (one CPU core) then the 5900X is
possibly your best buy. You’ll have to dig to find the absolute best single
thread rating.

RAM:

General options: Max it out for your motherboard now, or throw away what you
buy now and max it out later.

RAM isn’t a bottle neck, so I personally max the system out for the cheapest
money now, then never look at it again.

> 32G Corsair RAM (32K I think)
> Swap = 32G (I know it seems like overkill but lots of 4k video work so it
> helps plus need to hibernate).

- Many, many opinions on this, my rule of thumb for hibernate is: RAM + 4G =
swap.
- In a high RAM system swap is almost never used, so, counter intuitively,
stick swap on your slowest drive.

> The board uses uefi. So, I'd like some advice on the sda drive setup.

Easiest way is to do a completely clean OS install, that way the install makes
all those decisions and is about guaranteed to ‘just work.’ E.g. remove all
drives but the install drive (and /home drive if your OS gives you
a ‘preserve home’ option during the install, and a slow drive for swap as
desired), do the install, and then add back all the other drives.

> I'd put ESP in the first partition, so it's out of the way.
> Nik

What Nik said. Uefi (and such) seem to work better on the first
drive/partition.

Maybe related, “the key advice is GRUB should be installed to the Disk, not to
a partition.”
https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=60377

HTH, probably more than you wanted ;)!

Best,
Michael

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Being as you are installing the OS itself to a SSD it doesn't matter what partitions are where :)