SSD and HDD

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Buy a HDD, ensure you have an extra SATA cable. Open your case, physically mount the HDD into a 3.5" bay, attach the SATA cable to the motherboard and provide power via a SATA power connection from your PSU.

Boot into your OS, it should detect that there is a new drive. It will be blank. Assuming you have Windows, right-click My Computer and select Manage, go to Disk Management. Initialize the drive - you'll probably be prompted for this. Partition it however you want - probably a single partition taking up the entire space as NTFS. Mount it as D: and you can now store data to it by saving/moving things to D:.

Since this isn't a boot drive, you simply create directories on it as you wish and put files on there as you want. If you game and use Steam, then you can create a directory on D: and assign it as a secondary directory for your Steam library which allows you to run games from D: if they are too big for you to store them on the SSD ( C: ).
 
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For Steam games, see this:
In the steam client:
Steam
Settings
Downloads
Steam Library Folders
Add library folder
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