Re: ESP8266 WiFi Credentials auto saved to flash (ESP8266WiF
Posted: Sat May 14, 2022 7:53 pm
s100 wrote:Thank you, that answers my major question. Rather than ask for a fish dinner on the details, is there some online documentation I could read that would dive deeper into this?
Wasn't sure if your reply is to me or J.A., so I'll assume me. Fish Dinner
I don't want to sound like some kind of expert on flash. If you're asking, Did I find any on the Internet? On the Internet, I found nothing giving any numbers. In fact, the aspect I observed - That the erase duration took longer as the flash "aged" was never found in any literature.
If you're asking about my tests - I only destroyed (3) ESP8266, ESP-01S so inferring that all flash or even another brand that might be on another ESP8266 is pre-mature. The variability also is concerning... 400K to 900K out of three gives a very poor statistical "average". If you're doing something that writes once a day... I wouldn't worry much about it. If you're writing something once a minute, you ought to go to the trouble of doing some kind of wear leveling.
In my library, I also store up to 5 SSID/Password pairs along with other stuff. I just append it to the last written area until I fill up the 4K sector... then I erase and write it at the beginning again.
Sadistic abuse of ESP8266 - https://www.esp8266.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=23141