How do I find my old iPhone backup files from my old HDD? (it's not my startup disc anymore)

Guys I'm using a Macbook running Mavericks... I did a fresh install on this new SSD I bought. So my old HHD is in a Superdrive caddy thing all hooked up, so I have two storage drives running in my computer.. the old one is for extra storage but I didn't remove anything from the old HHD.. so everything from the old operating system is still there. How do I go to where itunes stored the backups of my iphone and ipad before I started over with a fresh install and new SSD?
I saw the thing where you press control G and paste in:
~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/
But I don't understand how to change it to go to my second hard drive instead of the one where my OS is running off of. Also when I navigate to that file by my self on both drives I can't even see the MobileSync folder. I don't know why... :/
Anyways, thanks for your help!

~ means your Home directory. Using the command above takes you to the Home directory on the boot drive. Your backup files are now on another drive in a directory that used to be your Home but is now a subfolder of Users so you have to specify that drive after the /Volumes, then the user name, then the rest to go there
I use OSX 10.4.11 and on it the libraries are still visible. There's two at least. One general one at the top level of the boot drive and another for each user (the one with the ~). I think they made at least one of them invisible with newer OS versions.

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