I added an SSD and I have 2 drives

I just added a SSD drive to my MBP and I moved the original drive to the optical bay. I am interested in having the SSD only handle the startup and the OS. I want place app icons on the SSD desktop, I want the apps to be kept on the original drive. How do I do this?

Partitioning an SSD!!! Normally users make raid 0 out of several SSD to have a one large partition striped across the SSDs. Can not think of a good reason to partition an SSD. Perhaps there may be???
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