Suggested partioning for 3 drives and RAM suggestions

[Net Llama!]

On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Harry G wrote:
> I am setting up a new system with 3 50 gig SCSI drives.  It is to be a
> workstation, doing the usual at home/small business work.  I want to store
> a lot of photos and mp3 files on it.  It will have

It will have what??

>
> What would be the bst way to parttion this setup?

Depends on whether you're going to do RAID or not.  Also depends on
whether just a single user needs access to the photos & mp3s, or if all
the users need it.   Do you already have alot of mp3s, or is this just
planning?

> Also, I can put in up to 1056 meg of ram.  Is it worth it, or would 528 be
> fine?  (Not doing a lot of massive spreedsheet calcs or anything).

As others have already noted, more RAM will almost always be better for
performance.  Also as Collins noted, you prolly mean 512MB & 1024MB.  Or
are you really adding a 16MB memory module?
At any rate, my current primary desktop box at home maxed out at 512, and
i sorely miss the extra memory.  My desktop boxes at work all have 1GB or
even 2GB, and the difference is noticable, even with XFCE4.

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