Late 2008 Unibody MBP issues with SSD

I have a late 2008 MacBook Pro running lion and recently upgraded my primary drive to a sandisk extreme 240GB SDD, i put by original HDD in the optical bay using a OWC caddy. I was hoping my macbook pro would become very fast after the installation of my SDD but instead it constantly freezes with the rainbow colored wheel spinning. Every 2 min it freezes for 30 seconds or so and then resumes. Any ideas on what i might be doing wrong? Is there any settings i need to change or something?

its old laptop more than 4 years I think so sure fan dirty if you didn't cleaned it before so i recommend you to check the fan and make sure its clean by open your laptop and clean it with compressed air the you will find it on hardware store if this didn't help I think your fan need to be replace with new one please check the below video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apn3j3mAR1k
I hop this will help you

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