Newly installed 7200rpm drive is slower...

Hi.
I just installed a 7200RPM - 320GB drive in my macbook pro and took out the previous 5400RPM - 200GB drive.
I used carbon copy cloner to clone the original and then put the new one back on...
I formatted it as MacOS (Journaled)...
It takes about 20 secs longer to see the apple logo when it starts and about 30 secs longer to load fully...
I have another 160GB - 5400RPM drive and its 30secs faster.... any ideas why this could be?
Thanks

This is Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard > Installation and Setup forum. You want to post where users like yourself hang out. Try the MacBook Pro Hardware forums here:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=190

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