Installing 2nd HDD and RAM: ??'s on installing and performance

Hi folks,
I bought a 2nd HDD (Maxtor's Maxline 500 GB Sata2) and 2GB (2x1GB) for my G5. A friend has offered to help install the items during his lunch hour seeing that my hands are deformed by arthritis. Can both be installed under an hour? I'd hate to have him come to my place to find out this requires a longer time.
For the HDD: The G5 came with a stock Maxtor 160 GB (6Y160M0) in Bay A. Should i keep this as the boot drive or would I see a nice difference if I had the new Maxtor 500 as the boot drive? Should I swap bays or doesn't matter?
For the RAM: The G5 came with 2x512GB sticks and it has 8 DIMM slots:
D-C-B-512 || 512-B-C-D
Should i simply pop the new RAM sticks in the B-B slots or would there be a performace increase if i pop the new in the A-A slots and move the 512 to the B-B slots?
Thanx in advance for any tips and recommendations,
Frank

Easily installed in under an hour. Piece of cake. I agree with Jeff that I like to keep the bigger drive in the A bay, but it's more a matter of perosnal preference than performance. If the new drive is inherently faster than the stock drive (which I imagine it is), you'll see a slight performance increase if you make the 500GB your startup drive.
As for the RAM, I don't think it makes any difference, but I personally put the biggest sticks in "A" and work high to low as I got out to "D."
Hope we helped. Be sure to award points if we did.
-K

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