Mac book pro hard drive getting full

I am about 90 % full on my hard drive. I have a time machine back up and a drive for saving photos both 1 TB. I have purchased a new 2TB drive. would it be to my advantage to install any new apps to the new hard drive are move some things over to it some I Movies  are apps I do not use much. I assume the mac can acess them from the other drive for use.

Programs should remain on the boot drive because they have support files they expect to be in certain places,
Space hogging user files transferred to the storage drive, especially Movies is a really big hog.
Download this free great program that will help you visualize where all your hard drive space is going.
http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/#download
Remember, TimeMachine is a rotating image backup of your boot drive only, so you need to make another hardware backup of your storage drive, as you need to maintain TWO hardware backups of your data at all times.
Also read through my massive brain dump post here, it will fill in a lot of information you may require
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16276201#16276201

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