Clone HD causing slow down?

[jimbob200521]

I'll try to keep it brief. I had a 60gb Mushkin SSD in my Macbook White Unibody but I found myself wanting more space. So I bought a Kingston 120gb SSD to replace it with. So, rather than reinstall everything and start fresh, I did the following procedure.

-Hooked up external HD
-Cloned SSD to HD to boot off of
-Booted from USB HD (not SSD)
-Once booted, created an image (via superduper) to the external HD of the previous internal SSD
-Shut down, installed new SSD
-Booted once again from the external HD
-Formatted & restored image to new SSD

Now it seems with this new SSD my Mac is using more CPU & memory than before. Is this just me or is there something in OSX El Capitan than doesn't play well with cloned/imaged SSD's to new SSD's? Thanks for the help guys!

 

[IowaLynn]

Spotlight

 

[deeddawg]

Translation: Spotlight is rebuilding it's search database (reindexing the drive) which will impact cpu and memory performance for a while until it's finished up.

 

[jimbob200521]

Translation: Spotlight is rebuilding it's search database (reindexing the drive) which will impact cpu and memory performance for a while until it's finished up.

That was the first thing I thought of so I disabled Spotlight (had it disabled on the previous setup, as well). I just never use it.