Sample size will not be a sad thing, as many of the top knotch samplers that use Gigasampler format (like Gigastudio and Kontakt) play these samples directly from disk. And so not needing huge ammounts of memmory (though i would atleast get 2 gigs in my main DAW)

I am trying to figure out which samplers use direct from disk playing. I have 2 sets of Raid 0 paired disks in my Computer. which makes fast diskuse easy.