Multiple hard drives, user folders and SSD's

I thouhght I would ask for advice here before I even start.
OK first a bit of background.
OSA X 10.6.8
When I bought my Mac, I fitted extra 1TB hard drives,  setup like this:
Drive 1 Mac OS  500gb
Drive 2 User home folders..moved from MachintoshHD/users 1TB
Drive 3 Data Folders, used for import of video, music and data before inport to Aperture/iPhoto/ Final Cut etc  1TB
Drive 4 Time machine backign up Drive 1 and 2 1TB
All drives as stndandard from Apple Caviar Black
Drive 3 is backed up via ChronoSync to a remote NAS box.
In the need for speed I removed the 500gb drive No. 1 and fitted a 120Gb SSD drive...and although it is quicker, it is not as good as expected, no doubt in part to the fact that the User Home folders are on a standard drive
I can't jsut move the user Home folders back to the SSD, due to space of the Aperture, iPhoto and iTunes  Librarys in the User Home folders. 
Iphoto 110Gb and Itunes 440Gb
So I was thinking Use my Drive 2..that is currently the 'Home Folder drive" as a shared data store for the iPhoto Itunes and other librays.
But need help to do this and advice on how to go about it
I will leave this post here for now as I have just had an energency work callout.  But any suggestions or advice before I start will be very much appreciated.
I do not want to risk the iPhoto database/faces etc with a move form one drive to another and have it all go sour
Thanks
Neil

"Leave just the /Users/my_account/Library on the SSD" Yes...that is what I want to achieve...at the moement it is not on the SSD it is on the seperate Users HDD ( No. 2) I want the User folders back on the SSD No luckily did not buy from Apple..just bought the same type as fitted...Think I bought them from Dabs.  but itwas 2009, so can't remeber now "Use preference to tell iPhoto etc to use another hard drive, same for iTunes media " So can i just copy the iPhoto and iTunes bundles across from one drive to another ? or are permisions etc going to get screwed, depending on the permissions of the drive I copy too? I do not liek to stripe drives , create arrays ..OK HDD space is relatively cheap now so the loss of space caused by using a RAID array ios not a major issue, but OI like to keep individual drives as individual drives...so no re build is needed if there is a crash.  I rather keep three indepant drives ..all with same data on them and rotate the drives on a weekly /monthly basis.. I have two FreeNAS boxes with identicla drives in them and use them as indepandatnbackups...Backup is not the iissue here, it is the moving of iPhoto librarys etc and the possible confusion the databases get into when moved with permissions etc

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