my personnal advise is: becarful because buying a mining hardware can take you time and personnal investement. A lot of scam is out there so be sure about where you going to buy your hardware to mine. Check the profitability and if Ether is still in Proof of Work and not in Proof of Stake, because proof of work as you power and is really a energy lost, you need big calculation and super machines. But proof of Stake you will need Ether in your wallet to be trusted, and reward in function of that. (It's not dangerous because rich are reward, ok it's dangerous you will say but it's life, it's the competition, but if they attempt to cheat on the new block, we burn them ethers).
Some discussion about the actual position : https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/proof-of-stake
mare more research about it.
After you need to make the calculation of what you need to earn how much.
When you will start until when, what is the difficulty, the reward you will get with this your setup.
Me i'm not mining I'm more a trader and a simple holder, but it's shoud be interesting to have some advises here from a actual miner of Ether. Anyone?
After you will have to find hardware if - you need something powerful, or not!
I want to learn how to do this, too.thanks for the info.will read up on these.