IMac 27" SSD and HDD configurations

I want to know how to make sure that only applications and OS are running on the SSD and all other music files, photos and documents are stored on the HDD. Please help!   

just move the files to where you want them
all my music and movies and the likes I moved to my NAS drive and just added them to itunes and the likes from there

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