SSD sleep and iMovie issues

Hi everyone, I asked this question on the iMovie forum but think it might be relevant here as well.
I have installed an OWC SSD in the 2nd optical bay on my Mac Pro. OS and only a few apps on the SSD, less than 30% used. All my photos and videos are on a 2 drive RAID 0 where they were before installing the SSD. Before the SSD iMovie would launch and load projects etc. in 11 sec first time then 6 sec subsequently. Now it takes 40 seconds to load the projects etc. every time I launch it. (The app launches in a second or two it's just loading the content that takes the time)
Photos on the RAID open in PS5 quickly, just iMovie is slow. (The iMovie library is about 400GB)
There are some other issues as well: When waking from sleep the computer often hangs in weird ways.
Sometimes I can launch, say, Safari but it won't load a page and if I launch iTunes it will try to launch then stop then everything is unresponsive needing a hard reboot. Other times after waking from sleep nothing will respond. I have "put hard drives to sleep" unchecked.
Could this all have something to do with the drive being plugged into the mother board? Is there a difference between that and the normal drive bay connectors?
Final bit of info..I still have the old boot drive installed but in the optical drive bay with the SSD. I have renamed it "Old Macintosh HD". I deleted iMovie and all the preference files from it.
Anyone have a suggestion?

Hi Hatter, The home user account is on the SSD but all content (video and photos) is on the RAID.
I did a clean install of SL on the SSD.
I seem to have resolved the iMovie issues by one or more actions including demounting the old Macintosh HD, deleting empty projects and event folders in the movies folder in the home folder and ditching the iMovie prefs.
The sleep issues remain though.
When waking from sleep if I click on Safari it just bounces in the dock and never opens. It stops bouncing and basically gives up after about a minute. Same if I click on iTunes.
I can click around the desktop but the selected actions just don't happen. If I choose retart nothing happens and I have to do a hard reboot.
Last time I woke it from sleep though I waited at least 10 seconds before trying to do anything and it was OK.
Also it seems as though the HDs are spinning down when not in use even though that pref is unchecked.

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