Home Folder, applications folder, where do they belong and what's in it?

Hello guys.
I build a Samsung 850 Pro 256GB ssd in my Imac (27 " mid 2010. i5, 2,8GHz, 20 GB ram) AND a new WD Black 1TB hd. All because of a degrading Seagate hd, with very long "wait-times" during boot, copy and past actions and so on. The overhaul was not too difficult, and now this old animal boots like a storm. The idea was to use the SSD as "system" disk only, and the WD as a place for (users-) Documents, settings, etc. I have read some procedures here but still not sure what to do best: via the "terminal" way or via the Finder. And also: what is exactly the difference between shortcuts, aliases and symbolic links. Now I see a home folder (still empty now) sitting in my SSD drive, and I guess that's the normal way for Yosemite (or OS X) but I want to move it to my harddisk. And do I have to move all Directories of my "old" home folder to this new one?
Thanks in advance
Hans

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