Personally I'm too paranoid about security and sus of Intel to be comfortable with vPro but you do you.
That said, I'd go for 1, considering you already have that 6th gen on hand in case you need a spare.
Otherwise 3 or 4 (whichever is available on secondary markets for a decent price) and hang on to that Pentium in case need arises. Doesn't sound like the extra power draw of an i7 is worth it for this build.
Up to 300 or so could be reasonable if the RAM and SSD are decent.
OK, so let's cut it down and say we have 4 PCs for someone with a family and home server, with 4 DIMMs each.
You are saying the first rule of PC building says that this house should have at least 16 unused DIMMs on the shelf. I'd say 2-4 is reasonable if they are all compatible.
"Buy two extra of everything" is a good rule and scales for the individual. "Buy double of everything" is not.
I always heard the first rule as "stay grounded". Having 1TB of RAM on stock just in case sounds not grounded.
A spare kit or two should be enough for most folks. With one or two spares of everything else so you can test suspicious parts separate from prod.
A bit of redundancy and foresight is good but no need to be excessive about it.
SWIM has a sizable aged library - wouldn't be surprising with sqlite db corruptions by now - and absolutely no issues smoothly upgrading amd migrating to 10.11. Had sweaty upgrades a few times over the years but this was not one of them.
Rule of thumb for OpenWRT:
In general for consumer routers, Broadcom-based ones like the one posted require a lot of work and hacking to port and maintain. If they’re even working with OpenWRT at all it can be quite dicey and troblesome if you are not very lucky.
In comparison, Mediatek-based models tend to be better supported and smoother sailing.
I haven’t seen much of Qualcomm but I’d guess they fall somewhere closer to Broadcom.
So no, I don’t think it’s a good pick. If OP got it handed down for free it might be worth a shot but I would buy something else if the purpose is to run OpenWRT or any Linux or BSD on it.
Source: Installed OpenWRT on many different devices over the years, including one with the same chipset
Now if we could just sort the jf collections type in ways other than by date ;)
Sounds like Good First Issue material! (;
There is one part in the post mentioning how to "pad holes" in failing areas. Maybe I should expand it with some details around aligning reserved address space.
Otherwise, corruption of the RAM itself does not usually spread like mold in bread or wear out and fail in similar ways to flash memory.
Another thing they may have in mind is ATX PSUs. The pinouts on those for the same physical plug vary not only by maker and model but sometimes even by year. So if you get an aftermarket ATX-to-SATA cable that fits just fine in the SATA plug on your ATX PSU, it may put 12v on the 5v and fry your drives or mobo when you plug it in even if it's from the same brand.
Don't ask me why there is a voltmeter on my desk.