Mac Pro Beachball issue...

I have a Mac Pro 3.33ghz 6-core with 12GB ram. Also have 4 WD 2TB Black Caviar drives (1 in each bay slot). But I have had only one problem with this computer since the very beginning of getting it. Even when I had only bay 1 filled with the Hitachi 2TB HD that came with the Mac Pro, I would notice that maybe about 1/3rd of the time I would turn the computer on, it would power up, allow me to sign in to my account name and once I got to the desktop, it would either be sluggish to load and the beachball would appear and keep spinning (and I would have to hold the power button to restart) - OR - the desktop would fully load and be ready to go, but when I clicked on the finder and brought up the finder window which lists my drives and home folder, etc - if I clicked on any of the other HD`s in the list, it would again pop up the beachball for maybe 2 minutes and then it would show me the folders found in the finder window for the HD selected.
Apple was having me run disk utility to repair permissions, which would work for maybe first 3 start-ups but then back to same problem. I ended up adding the other HD`s and switching the HD that came with the Mac Pro to a WD Black Caviar thinking it would solve the problem, perhaps. But it still does it.
Again, it`s not every time. But I feel between 30-50% is an awful lot of time for this computer to behave so strange. And keep in mind this is just when the computer powers on, so it`s not like I am running every 5 Adobe programs simultaneously and expecting the computer to run lightning fast. It is just upon power up that it happens, when nothing else is running at all. I have even installed Applejack to clear out the caches from time to time, and again - it seems to solve the problem, but more like putting a bandaid on it - not a true fix.
I have no clue what the problem could be. I am in Japan and unfortunately their solution for everything is to send the computer back and off no replacement or temp computer while they keep it for 10 days or more. I know it is NOT the hard drives because I have had great luck with these drives in the past and present. But somewhere within my Mac Pro something is making it sluggish either during startup or upon wanting to check folders in my HD`s thru the finder window.
Any ideas? And as for maybe the hard drives - all 4 are 2tb size, and all currently have about 1.5 - 1.7 tb empty space left. So it`s not that, either. And I think the amount of ram I have is plenty for what I do - MS Office, email, iTunes and photo work (itunes and photo storage on the drives).
I am totally confused why this is. Computer is not even 6 months old.

I had the same issue with the periodic beach ball. Lots of ram and 4 7200 rpm 2TB Seagates. It drove me nuts. I tried Kappy's approach which is the correct one with limited success.
Because I am a tinkerer and wanted speed/redundancy, first I tried using software raid 0 on two of the drives. That cured most of the beachballs. So, I liked the raid 0 but was scared of the software raid and data loss.
Then I added a Caldigit Raid Card in Raid 5. The machine is like lighting now and safer. No beachballs and lighting fast. Somehow the disk combo/controller appears to have been slowing me down. I have no idea why, but that's what did it for me.
Unfortunately you cannot move this card to 2009 or later MP's unless you use external raid. It will only do internal on 2008's. This is a very expensive solution but it worked for me. Since I can't even contemplate replacing this machine since it is so quick, the raid setup cost is partially offset by the number of more years I can keep my mac pro.
If you have the nerve to try raid 0 and keep good backups, that may work for you too.

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    Just to let you know, we're all users of Apple products on this site, just like you. Apple employees never respond on here, so if your intent is to communicate with them your best bet is to look up Apple's support site in your country. Let me suggest to you though that you buy an external drive something like this one and set it up as a Time Machine drive. Connect your Mac to it on a regular basis and all of your files will be saved. Should you lose the hard drive for any reason, like a repair, you could just run Migration Assistant and it would restore all your data from the backup drive.
    http://www.amazon.com/Passport-Ultra-Portable-External-Backup/dp/B00E055H5O/ref= sr_1_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1390159796&sr=1-2&keywords=2.5+external+hard+drive
    It doesn't have to be this exact drive, this is just an example.
    And here's a tutorial on how to set up Time Machine.
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