Added a newer, faster HD but initial boot is longer

Hey guys Im new to the MAC scene and purchased my 13" MacBook Pro right after Christmas. I love it, and today I bought a Seagate Maximus 7200 RPM 500 GB drive to replace the original 160GB drive.
I used SuperDuper to clone the drive, yet when I initially boot up the system the white screen shows as normal, however it seems like it takes the Apple logo and the "working" animation longer than it did before.
Any ideas on what I could have done wrong with this? I have it as 1 single partition and I partitioned it to be a boot up drive via the OS' partition program.

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All I can think of is that it's badly fragmented somehow ... you could try the Free Trial version of Drive Genius 2 to see if this is the case but to defragment you'd need to a) Boot from another Volume and b) purchase it (the trial allows you to see the structure but won't tidy it up)

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