Suggested partioning for 3 drives and RAM suggestions

[Chong Yu Meng]

Net Llama! wrote:

>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.
>
>  
>
That's amazing ! I'm running XFCE4 with 512MB of RAM and 3 SCSI drives 
(9GB each). I find that having SCSI drives makes a lot of difference -- 
not sure about the RAM because I haven't tried putting 1 GB of RAM in my 
box. I read somewhere that Linux is slow on disk writes (compared to 
commercial Unixes and Windows), and with an IDE hard disk the slowness 
is quite noticeable. Admittedly, I'm talking about the older drives, not 
the new serial ATA ones. I'm actually a little afraid of them because 
they run really hot.

Regards,
pascal chong