How can I save my media/data to alternate HD in Mac Pro?

Hi folks,
I have recently become the proud owner of a new Mac Pro. I'm really enjoying the Mac experience since buying a Macbook before Christmas to test the water.
I have a quick question that I hope someone may be able to help me with. I have a Mac Pro with two hard drives. My intention is to use one HD for system/applications and the other for media/data (with an external HD for backup).
I can't figure out how to tell OSX that I want to save all of my photos/videos/iTunes library on the "other" HD (i.e. not my system HD). I'm sure this is a "dumb" question but could someone please point me in the right direction?
Cheers,
Simon

Hi, Simon.
You can instruct iTunes and iPhoto to save their respective libraries to a different disk, e.g. your second hard drive. You can also move existing libraries for these apps to a drive other than your startup disk.
See the links concerning moving these libraries cited in the "More ways to save space if you have a spare partition or second hard drive" section of my "Freeing Space on your Mac OS X startup disk" FAQ.
Good luck!
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