Replacement second internal HDD causing problems.

About a year ago I replaced my internal 500gb HDD in my MacBookPro8,2 with a SSD drive and moved the original HDD to replace the DVD drive.
I boot Mac OSX Lion from the SSD and this has been running perfectly since then, however I am now running out of space on the 500gb drive, so I replaced it with a 750gb drive.
So I brought a western digital WD7500BPVX drive.
Then using a external drive dock, I formatted it to journaled HFS+, and then cloned the 500gb drive using Carbon Copy Cloner.
When the clone was finished, I used Disk Utility to verify the disk, All Good.
I use the second drive to hold all my large media files and also a number of VMWare images, I tested these and all working.
I then put the drive into the macbook in place of the 500gb, and the fun began!
It boots up OK, but the WD disk is very slow to appear in the finder, also each folder you click on hangs with the spinning beach ball for 30 to 40 seconds.
If you keep clicking on different folders in the drive Finder eventually stops responding.
I opened up Disk Utility, tried to verifiy the disk and Disk Utility spins it wheels for a while then hangs.
I restarted and tried repairing the disk with Disk Utility but it says it can't unmount the drive.
Note, If I don't use the second drive the MacBook work fine.
So I then swapped the original 500gb drive back in, and put the WD750 drive back in the external USB dock.
I then verified the disk using Disk Utility and it passed, I have tried open files, and they work!!!
Could this be a problem because I cloned the disk rather than just copying the files??
Any ideas before I wipe the disk and start the 480gb copy again??

I just found this at http://www.macfixit.com.au/owc-data-doubler-optical-bay-hard-drive-ssd-mounting- solution-for-macbook-and-macbook-pro-unibody-models.html
Special compatibility notes related to use of this product with 6Gb/s SSDs in the following machines:
2011 MacBook Pro 15" (Model ID MacBookPro8,2)
2011 MacBook Pro 17" (Model ID MacBookPro8,3)
OPTICAL BAY: The optical bay interface in these machines may either be SATA Revision 2.0 3Gb/s OR SATA Revision 3.0 6Gb/s. There is no way to specify/order this data interface with Apple, but you can confirm what interface/link speed version your optical bay offers via the Apple System Profiler.
Testing has demonstrated that Apple factory hardware does not reliably support a 6G (6Gb/s) Solid State Drive or Hard Disk Drive in the optical bay of 2011 MacBook Pros (ModeI ID8,1; 8,2; 8,3). If your OWC Data Doubler bundle comes with a 6G drive, you should ONLY install that drive in the main drive bay and utilize the Data Doubler to re-task your existing drive or install a new 3G SSD or HDD in the optical bay. PRE-2011 models can utilize a 6G drive in the optical bay, but will do so at a reduced 3G (3Gb/s) speed.
Seems like I can't use this drive as it is a 6GB/s!!!

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