How to reliably move 540GB of data between drives? System hangs on attempt.

Hello all,
My boss came to me the other day for help with why his Mac Pro (2008 I believe) is running super-slow when it has 32GB of RAM and plenty of total storage. Turns out the main system drive of 640GB has over 540GB of JUST EMAILS. Despite my attempts to convince him that there is no reason to keep all these emails, he wants to keep them all.
Current plan of attack is to move the email storage folder to one of the 3TB internal drives and create a symbolic link in Terminal to point Mail to the other drive for the mail folder. Of course, this requires I successfully move the 540GB of mail files to the other drive without the system freezing in the meantime... drive is currently at about 95% capacity.
Is there a better way to do this than just dragging the folder from one drive to the other in Finder, so that the system does not hang? Or is there maybe a program that I can use to move the files in groups/sections?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks all!

Nope.
Use a small fast SSD of just OS and apps on the boot drive .
Use 2TB for media and docments
You can move the home folder to another device.
I would move the system to "Drive A" and move the user account to "Drive B"
Many / most 3TB drives are green and not your standard performance 7.2k drives which you want.
Archive files.
To move a drive or system use Carbon Copy Cloner.
How to relocate system and user data to another drive:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4337http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-move-the-home-folder-in-os-x-and-why/To successfully relocate your operating system, user accounts and data from one storage device to another, meet the following conditions:
The destination storage device (SSD drive or hard drive) you are migrating to should be physically located in the same computer. Moving operating system files from one computer to another computer using software not specifically designed for that computer can cause issues due to software, hardware, and firmware version mismatches.
Always back up your storage device with Time Machine or Disk Utility before you start.
SSD: Samsung 840 120GB $96 (500GB $320)
http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Series-120GB-internal-MZ-7TD120BW/dp/B009NHAF06/
There are also 750 and 1TB EVO Samsung models too
Sonnet Tempo Pro
http://www.sonnettech.com/product/tempossdpro.html
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Sonnet%20Technologies/TSATA6SSDPR/
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Sonnet%20Technologies/TSATA6SSDE/
How to clone your system:
http://macperformanceguide.com/Mac-HowToClone-backup.html
http://macperformanceguide.com/Mac-HowToClone.html
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/7032/carbon-copy-cloner
http://www.macperformanceguide.com/blog/2012/20120711_2-MacPro-internal-clone-ba ckup.html
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/7032/carbon-copy-cloner
http://www.bombich.com/software/updates/ccc-3.5.html

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