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plus, I hate seeing "1 disputed" in my flag record :)

Unless you happen to be able to read the language it was written in, you wouldn't be able to tell whether or not it answered the question - so it wouldn't fit the "not an answer" option. This is sort of splitting hairs really. I just think it was obvious that the answer should have been deleted, and that it's very petty to dispute my flag, when I reckon it would have been ultimately helpful in guiding a mod to the best action.

@Sathya ok, and sorry about the delayed reply. So a mod's action does not automatically reverse the opinions of +10k users, even when the same post is flagged. I can understand that. But surely voting VLQ was the best-fitting flag option in this case, specifically because the post fits the "severe formatting or content problems"?

Can a mod clarify why a flag I made was disputed, but the post was deleted anyway? The post wasn't in English, so I flagged it as "very low quality", which seemed to be the best fit. Thanks!

@TomWijsman were you doing some extreme overclocking tests to get that crazy unsafe shutdown count?

@TomWijsman show-off :p

that error dialog box stinks of hideous Java GUIs

Well I'm at 2.43TB after about two years

actually I'd read it as ess-ess-dee, so "an" reads fine to me

but it depends on TRIM support

that's true, and the small writes you mention will hurt the write amplification

I've assumed 10,000 p/e cycles per flash cell, and a write amplification of 1.0

@TomWijsman here's a spreadsheet I made earlier to convince myself :p

well, that's far more likely to be reason because, even for best case mentioned in the post, you would need an average write speed of about 21MB/s for about a year to wear out the drive

Jeff Atwood's recent SSD blog post doesn't describe SSD failures due to exhausting all flash p/e cycles, but due to the controller hardware or software failing.

or, at least, why they seem to fail

ahh. anyway, no big deal, but I wanted to defend the longevity of SSDs

I think the asker got confused about which drive was causing their problem

@TomWijsman I just wrote a long-winded comment to a post of yours, but the question was deleted before I was done...

@Sathya @WilliamHilsum that's awesome, thanks!

that would reduce it to a single source + resistance though

@KronoS are you looking for something like the Thevenin or Norton equivalent?

but, then again, it's a fairly minor point overall

@JourneymanGeek ah, good point actually, I didn't downvote the bad answer I mentioned before, because I was worried it might get deleted by the author - and all the useful details in the comments lost...

so I was thinking Spiff could re-phase his comments into a much better answer

@JourneymanGeek true, but it doesn't really show up against the 5 upvotes and the accepted answer tick

I'm just slightly worried that a shoddy answer has become the accepted one.

does Spiff ever come on here? because Spiff's info was lost from this question, when a really bad answer was deleted: superuser.com/questions/294766/…

it's now at over 3000 hits and 60 retweets within about 12 hours

@DMA57361 cool! people will click on and retweet anything Jeff posts...

so... is no one actually going to make the changes I asked for ages ago? I really don't understand why not - it involves just a few simple find and replace changes. I designed the article that way, and it would be that way now if it wasn't for an unusual bug in WordPress.

plus, not all the images needed a caption

@DMA57361 yeah I played around with that, but I didn't like the way it rendered for the SU blog.

@tombull89 thanks! I included the total cost of the NAS in USD as a sort of compromise. I really just wanted to show that it can be much cheaper (and fairly straightforward) to build a NAS rather than going for an off the shelf product.

@nhinkle well, obviously it's not hugely important, but I wanted the images to have tooltip text. If the images don't render, I think it's fine to display nothing, rather than the current alt text.

@KronoS could you or an SU blog super-admin change all the image alt attributes in the NAS post to be title attributes? Due to this bug, any title attributes get chucked out when I save my post... Thanks!

@IvoFlipse Thanks again for adding my NAS post while I was away from home. Unfortunately, I can't view it or edit it, so I just created a new draft using my account.