A way to solve hard drive with slow read write speed

Just to share.
Currently I am trying to upgrade my Mac Pro 2008, and replaced the 2TB startup disk with a 120GB OWC SSD.  After the OS installation, I started to move my photo library to a bigger 2 TB hard drive in Bay 2.
After completion, I started to import the photos to Aperture 3, but it crashed and failed to complete. I had a feeling that something wrong with my hard drive that holding the picture files, therefore, I tried to copy the disk to an external Firewire Hard Disk, the copy was very slow and showing an effective copy speed of 2 MB/s.
Disk utility, repair permission did not help and proved it was ok.
I did a Google search, and a Mac user suggested to use an Apple software called "TechTool Deluxe", therefore, I might as well have a try.
After a few tests, it did show up an error and asked me whether I would like to repair it, so I clicked Ok.
It took a second to repair and now the copy speed showing 50 MB/s.

Sounds like trouble with non system drive; with where the preference for where Aperture library is perhaps?
You have a couple backups of your drives in case you want to just update changes and reformat.
Is the old system drive and OS still around? might want to pull that. Eliminate confusion, cross-link of files or paths.
With SSD you want to clone and have a system image for restore - same as anytime, but even more so.
I've read but never understood the problems people have had with installing or cloning Mac OS to an SSD, but seems "real" nonetheless. And some problems with setting up Aperture was mentioned.

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