I'm about to use the EEPROM library with ESP8266 NODE MCU. I keep reading that "Limited (10K?) write cycles." and "thus will wear out the flash memory very quickly". What does this mean? Will it actually damage the chip or does it just mean the contents need to be refreshed?

EEPROM "Limited (10K?) write cycles."

anon57585045 August 18, 2021, 12:57am 5

I think the ESP8266 has no internal flash, it depends on an external flash IC. So the flash performance depends on the external flash IC specs.

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