What order should I migrate files to new fusion drive in order to not clog it up with music and photos's?

My new 27" 1Tb fusion drive iMac has arrived and I am planning on setting it up over the next couple of days. I chose not to migrate my data from my old Time Machine backup as I want to start afresh so before selling my old MacBook I copied all the data I wanted to transfer onto an external drive into organised folders. I now want to import theses file to the new imac. I have a 25Gig iPhoto library, a 74Gig music folder, plus around 120Gig of video, documents, Logic Pro and Garage band files that I want to keep on the internal drive. I also have around 600Gig of iMovie files that I will keep on external scratch drives which don't need to go on the internal drive. I am not going to use migration assistant as that all went wrong last time, I will just drag the folders from the external drive on to the imac's internal drive.
Is there an order that I should import all of this when migrating to the new Fusion Drive so as not to clog up the SSD part with files that don't need to be accessed often or speedily, i.e. photos and iTunes media files? I know that the fusion software somehow sorts it all out in the background but I want to know that the type of files that will most benefit from SSD speed will live on that part of the drive.
Or, will it just sort itself out no matter what order I import?

Contact Apple's Express Lane and ask them, It's their new technology and they're responsible for providing the salient details.

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