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>>3258869

For EEPROM when you write too much stuff it becomes stuck in programmable mode and can't distinguish the high and low states. I know that the latter also occurs in Flash ROM, but I don't know for the former.
I do know that the more you write things the less it'll be able to store data on the long run too.

>>3259240

>while your 30 year old floppy drive mechanisms...not so much.
Except almost everything in a floppy drive mechanism can be replaced. The only parts that can't are some ICs and to some extent the drive's head because they're no necessarily produced anymore, but like the other anon stated, manufacturing new ones wouldn't cost that much. Hell, it wouldn't surprise me if it was possible to make a DIY one.

>>3258863

Yup they can, but beware of the late chinese ones that doesn't have drive select and other pins.