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My motherboard has a profiles feature which allows to save and load profiles of the motherboard's configurations.

I would like to create 2 profiles.
On every day of the week, I will load both profiles (at different times) - That is my usage for every day of the week.
I assume that every time that I load a different profile - my choice is saved to the flash memory on the motherboard. (Means that a write action is performed to the flash memory.)

Would the flash memory be able to endure the many writes that I will be doing every day ?

I'm afraid that the motherboard will be failing quickly due to my unusual usage...

Please advice.
 
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Well I use my rigs not only for working but for also testing other components, so as an example on say my Z77 rig, I probably made BIOS changes at least 300 times a year or more and it's still running sweetly (sold it about a year ago) .
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Yes but after that a profile is loaded and its read, then the MoBo resets the PC.
If the PC is reset, how does it know to use the loaded profile?
Probably because it was saved to ROM/Flash..

 
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Yes I know it's not a big deal for me either.

But I read years ago that flash chips on MoBo aren't very reliable, thus you may issue very few writes to them, until they fail.
Since that the loaded/chosen profile is saved to flash - if it happens on daily basis then the flash memory will fail quickly, which is very bad for us..
(this is the big deal..)
 
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Well I use my rigs not only for working but for also testing other components, so as an example on say my Z77 rig, I probably made BIOS changes at least 300 times a year or more and it's still running sweetly (sold it about a year ago) .
 
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How many years did you work like this..?
300 times per yer... let's assume 5 years then 1500 times.

I plan at least 365*2 = 730 times per year.
Let's assume I'll be doing this for 5 years, then at least 3650 write to flash.

The flash chip on the BIOS is:
MXIC 25L6473E

Its datasheet is in the following link:
http://pdf1.alldatasheet.com/datasheet-pdf/view/575521/MCNIX/MX25L6473E.html

According to its datasheet:

  • ■ there are typical 100,000 erase/program cycles.
    ■ 20 years of data retention.

So I think that I'm covered :)

Update:
My MoBo is Gigabyte H87M-D3H
 
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