Any one know if the optic bay mounts can cause problems?

To recount. My macbookpro 13 had 2 OCZ agility 2 128GB drives in it.
I'd had problems lately, each time needing to rebuild the boot disk from time capsule backups. So I sourced a vertex 3 128GB, to replace the boot drive which I can now confirm is toes up. (Edit: the vertex is toes up) Then purchased a crucial m4 256GB. Which worked fine. But I found the machine subject to periodic freeze ups. This was happening when the optic bay drive threw an error. Pulling it and returning the SuperDrive to its place has stabilized the machine.

I could not pull the data off the files drive while it was in the optic bay, but now with it hanging on the USB dongle, I'm having no problems reading it, or the boot drive.

The vertex is going back to OCZ. I don't know I can file a claim on the agility drives with them seeming to work outside the Mac.