IBook G3 Slowing Down Considerably

My old iBook G3 has slowed down a lot, especially since I upgraded to Tiger. I am planning to increase the RAM but, I was also wondering if it might be that I am reaching the point of filling the hard drive.
Question : will adding an external HD help speed up things or would I need to change the internal HD with bigger capacity ?

I'd definitely recommend upgrading the RAM with a 512 MB module.
Here are some links to articles on performance optimization, including one on freeing up space on your boot drive:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=971817&#971817
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=607640&#607640
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/11/21/maintenance.html
http://www.macmaps.com/Macosxspeed.html
http://www.macdesignonline.com/issues/julaug03/DrMac.html
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/performance.html
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/maintainingmacosx.html
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/freeingspace.html
Maybe something there will help speed things up for her.

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