Mover user file to second hard drive

I have a new iMac with a SSD on which applications are loaded, and everthing else is there by default.  But I wanto store music, documents, photos, etc on the second hard drive.  Can I just drag the "user" file to the second hard drive, since that's the file that contains docs, photos, etc?

Yes, but if you want to use it as something other than a backup, you also need to open the Accounts pane of System Preferences, control-click your account, and change the home folder path. This will look like /Volumes/volumename/foldername/ when changed.
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