Performance hanging after adding scratch disk

So I added another blank newly formated SSD to use as a sractch disk.  However, PS seems to hand sometimes or freeze/lag when selecting this other drive as my sratch disk.  What gives? 
Using CS5 Extended

How have you connected the drive? Internal connector or External USB?
You may want to read this article to optimize your CS5 for Performance - http://blogs.adobe.com/crawlspace/2011/05/how-to-tune-photoshop-cs5-for-peak-performance.h tml

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