WTF? Why is my SSD taking 42 seconds to boot?

I just replaced the HDD and the first 30 seconds are seconds are spent on a white screen and the last 12 seconds on the Apple log. I've restarted 3 times now and keep getting the same result. My HDD is in the optical bay slot and I erased it already. Do I need to do something else to let the computer know that this is the new boot drive?

Everything else is working great. My HDD was writing at 69 MB/s and reading at 90 MB/s. My SSD is now writing at 195.3 MB/s and reading at 508.9 MB/s

 

Ok, so I reset the PRAM and now it boots in about 9 seconds but still takes a while to restart. Screen goes white/gray and I get a little spinning bar. Not a big deal, but still annoying.

 

Nice, I think this fixed it. Thanks.