I'm busy building a monster of a server (8 cores, 16GB memory, 6TB drive space) that can support multiple virtual machines, so I can play with mirroring, replication, AlwaysOn, clustering and other fun features (there are other reasons for the server too).
Wasn't that expensive. Excluding the drives and screen, under R7000.
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability