Potential Hard Drive on RC?

[Neal Turett]

EEPROM's lifecycle is only about 100K accesses (reads or writes).

THis means that if you access the EEPROM every look, and one loop takes 26 ms, you get about, your EEPROM is bad after 2,600,000ms = 2600s = 16 minutes, 40 seconds of use before you start to have to start worrying if you're burning out your EEPROM.

Then you have to hope that you never want to write a program big enough to fill up the EEPROM to the point where your program hits the bad memory. Once that happens, you're SOL. You might be able to change slots, but I'd personally rather avoid the whole mess.