I've been curious about the write endurance of typical BIOS chips, especially with Dell rolling out updates frequently—sometimes it feels like daily! My old Precision 7420 gets updates that are over 100Mb and can take a while to install. I often wonder how many more write cycles the chip can handle. What do you all think?
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Honestly, a quick search would have answered your question pretty easily. But with modern technology, the write endurance feels almost infinite since BIOS updates aren't frequently writing new data each time. Is this something that a lot of people are concerned about?
BIOS chips use NOR flash memory, and they're usually rated for tens of thousands of write cycles. So, your chip should be fine for a long time!
Most BIOS chips are rated for around 100,000 write cycles, which is pretty solid. You don't really need to worry about it, as it's definitely not going to be less than 10,000.
Yes, I think about it sometimes! I have some concerns about how it all works.