One example is flash memory which can only do a certain number of writes (in the order of 10,000-100,000 writes). You could have a firmware that saves everythi

One example is flash memory which can only do a certain number of writes (in the order of 10,000-100,000 writes). You could have a firmware that saves everything to flash all the time and eventually causes the flash to become defective. It'd be easy to burn a flash out in less than a day.