Mac Pro - Imaging Taking 3 Hours for 30Gb

Hi All,
I have had an odd issue with a batch of brand new Mac Pros.
I have setup a 10.5.6 Mac Pro with 30gb of Apps and System to be used as an Image for the rest of the Mac Pros.
While using Carbon Copy Cloner, Chronosync or Apple Server System Imaging Utility can take 2.5 to 3 hours.
I really have no idea why!
After I have cloned the image it will deploy back and the Mac Pros are running very nicely with that configuration, all very fast.
I have taken the Image and then created an Image of that whilst on an Xserve and that took 10 minutes.
I am convinced that the Mac Pros are just oddly slow at doing this but cannot understand why.
I have checked the disks and ran permissions checks, ran the combo updater.
Anyone got any thoughts?
Thanks,
David Lee

Hyperthreading is a PIA. Try and shut it off because it slows servers down instead of speeding them up. The problem is that the OS spinning off threads and managing processes because it knows what being run can optimize/schedule it. But then you have a chip that doesn't know what running it just see streams of instructions and its trying to optimize them. So its taking something organized and trying to reorganize it so things start getting out of sequence and having to wait. Hyperthreading worked for home computers that generally were only running a couple simple generally non-threaded app's at a time. On my Mac Pro (Early 2008) 8 Core 3.2GHz, 32Gigs RAM, Quadro FX 5600, and no Hyper Threading, I have done similar operations and has taken between 10-20 Minutes.

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