Upload sketches (maximum?)

Should I be no more concerned about uploading sketches to my Arduino than I am writing data to my USB flash drive?

u mean in terms of chance of corruption?

If you mean how many times the flash memory can be overwritten with a new program, it's in the datasheets for the Atmega processors, i can't remember the number but it is many many times. (Thousands).

The datasheet says that program memory supports at least 10,000 cycles. This is 10 times less than the number of cycles for the EEPROM memory, but still more then most people are likely to encounter.

I wouldn't worry about it at all. :wink:

Thanks all

yes the number of times I it can be written to. Although I have only done about 15-20 sketches (just tinkering), I guess if one did happen to run into issues (doubt it) one could just buy a new ATMega128 and drop in.

Thanks again.

AFAIK, even with windows the main concern with flash drives is that it'll somehow wind up containing a file that is constantly updated (swap file?)
Even with only 1000 guaranteed writes, it'd take me a long time to manually over-write ... anything.