Problem with second internal HDD in MacBookPro

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??

Try some standard maintenance. Download Onyx and run its full suite of maintenance and cleaning tools.

Thanks for replying, I have downloaded DriveDX and OS-X-SAT-SMART-Driver, and with the drive in the USB dock, got the report below.
I have also had the drive running for the last 4 hours with no issues via USB.

I am wondering if it maybe an issue with this drive being SATA 6.0Gb/s capable, and this causes an issue in the optical bay...

here is the SMART report

Last Checked : 19 November 2013 10:03:29 PM AEDT
Last Checked (ISO 8601 format) : 2013-11-19T22:03:29

Advanced SMART Status : OK
Overall Health Rating : GOOD 97.0%
Overall Performance Rating : GOOD 97.0%
Issues found : 1

Serial No : WD-WX31A53N8214
WWN Id : 5 0014ee 603976b7e
Volumes : Pro750
Device Path : /dev/disk3
Total Capacity : 750.2 GB (750,156,374,016 Bytes)
Model : WDC WD7500BPVX-55JC3T0
Firmware Version : 01.01A01
Drive Type : HDD 5400 rpm

Power On Time : 55 hours (2 days 7 hours)
Power Cycles Count : 13
Current Power Cycle Time : 4.1 hours



=== DEVICE CAPABILITIES ===
S.M.A.R.T. support enabled : yes
DriveDx Diagnostic Rules Config : Base config
Sector Logical Size : 512
Sector Physical Size : 4096
Physical Interconnect : USB
Removable : yes
Ejectable : no
ATA Version : ACS-2 (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version : SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 1.5 Gb/s)
Attributes Data Structure Revision : 16
SMART Command Transport (SCT) flags : 0x7035
SCT Status supported : yes
SCT Feature Control supported : yes
SCT Data Table supported : yes
Error logging capabilities : 0x1
Self-tests supported : yes
Offline Data Collection capabilities : 0x7b
Offline Data Collection status : 0x0
Auto Offline Data Collection flags : 0x0
I/O Path : IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/EHC1@1D,7/AppleUSBEHCI/External @fd120000/IOUSBInterface@0/IOUSBMassStorageClass/IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceNub/org_dungeon_driver_IOSATDriver/IOSATServices
[Known device ]: no
[Drive State Flags ]: 0x40000000
[Last State Change Timestamp ]: 2013-11-19T20:41:12
[Last State Change Flags ]: 0x40000000
[Last State Change Diff Flags ]: 0x1


=== CURRENT POWER CYCLE STATISTICS ===
Data Read : 1.3 GB
Data Written : 509.0 KB
Data Read/Write Ratio : 2712.42
Average Throughput (Read) : 1.8 MB/s
Average Throughput (Write) : 67.0 KB/s

Operations (Read) : 12,505
Operations (Write) : 34
Operations Read/Write Ratio : 367
Throughput per operation (Read) : 110.4 KB/Op
Throughput per operation (Write) : 15.0 KB/Op

Latency Time (Read) : 0 ns
Latency Time (Write) : 0 ns
Retries (Read) : 0
Retries (Write) : 0
Errors (Read) : 0
Errors (Write) : 0


=== PROBLEMS SUMMARY ===
Failed Indicators (life-span / pre-fail) : 0 (0 / 0)
Failing Indicators (life-span / pre-fail) : 0 (0 / 0)
Warnings (life-span / pre-fail) : 1 (1 / 0)
Failed Self-tests (Short / Full) : 0 (0 / 0)
I/O Errors Count : 0 (0 / 0)
Time in Under temperature : 0 minutes
Time in Over temperature : 0 minutes


=== IMPORTANT HEALTH INDICATORS ===
ID NAME RAW VALUE STATUS
5 Reallocated Sector Count 0 100% OK
197 Current Pending Sectors Count 0 100% OK
198 Offline Uncorrectable Sector Count 0 100% OK
199 UDMA CRC Error Count 93 100% Warning


=== TEMPERATURE INFORMATION (CELSIUS) ===
Current Temperature : 28
Power Cycle Min Temperature : 28
Power Cycle Max Temperature : 31
Lifetime Min Temperature : 23
Lifetime Max Temperature : 41
Recommended Min Temperature : 5
Recommended Max Temperature : 55
Temperature Min Limit : 5
Temperature Max Limit : 55


=== DRIVE HEALTH INDICATORS ===
ID | NAME | TYPE | UPDATE | RAW VALUE | VALUE | THRESHOLD | WORST | STATUS
1 Raw Read Error Rate Pre-fail online 0x0 200 51 200 100% OK
3 Spin Up Time Pre-fail online 1,716 185 21 182 97.0% OK
4 Start Stop Count Life-span online 38 100 0 100 100% OK
5 Reallocated Sector Count Pre-fail online 0 200 140 200 100% OK
7 Seek Error Rate Life-span online 0x0 200 0 200 100% OK
9 Power On Hours Life-span online 55 100 0 100 100% OK
10 Spin Retry Count Life-span online 0 100 0 253 100% OK
11 Calibration Retry Count Life-span online 0 100 0 253 100% OK
12 Power Cycle Count Life-span online 13 100 0 100 100% OK
191 G-Sense Error Rate Life-span online 5 95 0 95 95.0% OK
192 Power-Off Retract Count Life-span online 9 200 0 200 100% OK
193 Load Cycle Count Life-span online 264 200 0 200 100% OK
194 Temperature (Celsius) Life-span online 28 119 0 106 99.2% OK
196 Reallocated Event Count Life-span online 0 200 0 200 100% OK
197 Current Pending Sectors Count Life-span online 0 200 0 200 100% OK
198 Offline Uncorrectable Sector Count Life-span offline 0 100 0 253 100% OK
199 UDMA CRC Error Count Life-span online 93 200 0 194 100% Warning
200 Multi Zone Error Rate Life-span offline 0 100 0 253 100% OK
254 Free Fall Sensor Life-span online 0 200 0 200 100% OK


=== DRIVE ERROR LOG ===
error log is empty


=== DRIVE SELF-TEST LOG ===
self-test log is empty

kiweed said:

Thanks for replying, I have downloaded DriveDX and OS-X-SAT-SMART-Driver, and with the drive in the USB dock, got the report below.
I have also had the drive running for the last 4 hours with no issues via USB.

I am wondering if it maybe an issue with this drive being SATA 6.0Gb/s capable, and this causes an issue in the optical bay...

Click to expand...

Being SATA 6 shouldn't be an issue. It will simply drop down to whatever the bus can do. Besides, your original drive should have been an SATA 6, and if it had no issues, then the new one certainly shouldn't on that basis.

You can try swapping the drives around... put the SSD in the optical bay and the HDD in the HD bay, then see what happens.

I just ran across an interesting tip on Apple's forums. Check this:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/18606400#18606400

Look at what the negotiated speed is for both HDDs while in the optical bay.