Serial ATA / SSD combo situation

I have the 2011 iMac 2TB Serial ATA and ~275 GB Solid State Drive Combo. The SSD hard drive is getting full. How do I move larger files, like iphoto library to the serial ATA. Will iphoto still "know" to get the photos from there? Will it know to import to the 2T serial ATA as opposed to the SSD? I am assuming the process is more involved that simply copying the folder from the SSD and pasting it to the serial ATA.
Thanks in advance.
PS. I have very limited computer knowledge, so simple is best.

Apple explains how to do this in :
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2506

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