Comment: Re:Virtualize (Score 1) 142
I agree with building a computer with 8GB or more of memory.
I use VirtualBox for my home test system and set the disk image to be written to a 16GB Ram Drive -- this makes it very fast to format and load a new guest OS from ISO or DVD -- I usually set and name the disk images in VirtualBox to be 4GB or 10GB in size. I back up the disk images off-site and on a small raid5 server, and have one local copy in a folder called "ComputerStore" -- set up a shared folder (and network share to something like C:\vshare\readonly, C:\vshare\readwrite for work you need to save)
Windows Ram Drives -- google:
superspeed ram drive
drdataram ram drive
softperfect ram drive