Files are great programming tools?
Lets say we have a last settings file for a dialog. Stores the users last confirmed field values.
How much concern is there to update this file every time the settings are confirmed?
Considering dialog can be called mutable times during program duration, and hard drive wear from a file update, or possibly file create. I've lost my research into the technology used in Win7 that switches SSD current writes to least written to bit. I forget what it's called.
I've been writing to files for decades. Always seemed to be the way to get the job done and my hard drives have lasted 5-10.
Is my example bad practice, if the program gets allot of use?