Best way to use DataStore?

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DataStores have limits and you should not be saving data each time a value changes.

Try saving on PlayerRemoving and game:BindToClose()

Documentation - Roblox Creator Hub

Here’s a good post by @sjr04 about when to save data.

How to properly save player data in data stores upon server close

OH NO. Your script that saves data doesn’t seem to work. If that’s you, you’re in the right place. But why is this? What’s going on? First off, some data loading and saving scripts look kind of like this -- in this very specific example it's saving cash local Players, DataStoreService = game:GetService("Players"), game:GetService("DataStoreService") local cash_data_store = DataStoreService:GetDataStore("CashDataStore") local function load(player: Player) -- ... end local function save(p…

Edit :

@Winky_y

No, in case of DataStore errors or poor connectivity, requests to DataStores can fail; that’s the reason wrapping them in protected calls is ideal for preventing Data loss, you can use them to retry saving data if an error was encountered.