Upgrading an early 2005 G5 Power Mac - memory & HD - your hindsight appreci

Hello, I have an early 2005 G5 Power Mac, dual 2.3 Ghz, 2GB memory, and a 400GB Hitachi Drive.
In researching memory and hard drives, I come face to face with all the engineering terms and now have cold feet about it.
My existing memory is called: PC3200U-30330 DDR SRAM. I found a Samsung module on the web called a PC3200 DDR400 for $61 but the vendor won't confirm compatibility. Can anyone recommend a competitively priced substitute for the expensive Apple part? Is there a rule of thumb on knowing how much is too much or should I just buy 6 additional 1GB modules and have done with it.
I have one HD. I assume it is a SATA-1. I'd like to buy a 500mb 2nd drive. I have read the SATA-2 drives are backward compatible; are they? How should the jumper on the new drive be set: cable select??
Finally, are there any performance suggestions anyone could mention for me to look into? I am editing music files in the 10 to 75mb range, cutting and re-constructing movie clips in the 4.7 gb range.
Thanks in advance for your suggestions,
Sam
M978xx/A wATI-Radeon9650XT   Mac OS X (10.4.9)   I am an IBM compatible user converting to Apple

Hi,
the RAM compatible with your computer you can find here:
http://eshop.macsales.com/MyOWC/Upgrades.cfm?model=219&type=Memory&TI=1906&shoup grds=Show+Upgrades
And also on other Mac's sites like Crucial, Omni Technologies
I would be very careful with PC's RAM - some of them can work with Mac, but some don't.
Hard disk SATA-2 is backward compatible, so you can buy for example Maxtor MaxLine Pro 500 GB:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Maxtor/7H500F0/
or WD RE2 500 GB:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Western%20Digital/WD5000YS/
or Hitachi:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Hitachi/0A31619/
I think that you don't need more then the next 2GB of RAM. In fact, if you editing music - your current 2GB seems to be fine. But always 4 GB is better then 2 GB
And performance suggestion in this case is faster processor - so, you can buy used Quad G5, or better MacPro 3.0 with 2 GB RAM.
Marek.

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