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EnglishHow to Explore Matt Cole's microSD Test Data and Posts on bahjeez.com
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bahjeez.com is Matt Cole's personal blog, subtitled "My little corner of the Internet." It is the home base for his long-running microSD card endurance testing project, where he documents failures, publishes an open letter to SanDisk, and links out to media coverage. If you want to find his raw test data, follow his ongoing results, or browse his writing by date, the site's navigation gives you four main paths: Posts, Recent Posts, Recent Comments, and Archives. The sections below explain what each one gives you and how to use them.
What you'll find on bahjeez.com
The blog is organized around Cole's own testing work rather than general tech news. According to the site's own excerpt, he has been running endurance tests on microSD cards for roughly two and a half years, has destroyed over 150 cards from more than 30 brands, and has another 100-plus cards from 30 brands still under test. He also states he created a browsable database of his data for anyone to see, and that his work has been covered by outlets including TechRadar, TechSpot, Tom's Hardware, and IGN.
That means the site serves two related purposes:
- A running log of test results and commentary, including his open letter to SanDisk titled "Dear SanDisk, Please Do Better."
- A pointer to a separate browsable database where the raw endurance data lives.
Navigating the site
The page evidence lists these navigation elements: Posts, Posts pagination, Recent Posts, Recent Comments, and Archives. Here's how to use each.
Posts and Posts pagination
The main Posts feed is where new entries appear. Because the list is paginated, older entries move to subsequent pages rather than loading all at once. Use Posts pagination to step backward through the timeline if you're looking for something that isn't on the first page.
Recent Posts
Recent Posts is a shortcut to the newest entries, useful if you're checking in for updates rather than reading chronologically. If you're following the SanDisk letter or a new batch of card failures, start here.
Recent Comments
Recent Comments shows the latest reader replies. This is worth checking because corrections, counter-data points, and brand-specific questions often surface in comments before they appear in a full post.
Archives
Archives groups posts by date, which is the most reliable way to find older material when you know roughly when it was published but not its title. If you're tracing how the testing project evolved, the archive is the better tool than scrolling the paginated feed.
Finding the microSD test data
The most important detail for data-seekers: Cole states he "created a browsable database of my data for all to see." That database is the place to go for raw results rather than the blog feed itself. The blog posts provide context, narrative, and conclusions; the database provides the underlying records.
A practical approach:
- Start with the most recent Posts entry about the testing project to get the current state of play.
- Follow any link in that post to the browsable database for the full dataset.
- Use Archives to trace earlier phases if you want to compare results over time.
- Check Recent Comments for reader-supplied data or challenges to his findings.
Why the site is worth reading
Cole's testing is unusual in scale. Destroying 150-plus cards across 30-plus brands, with another 100-plus still under load, is not a typical review process. His stated motivation is personal as well as analytical: he describes losing the source code for a Wikipedia bot he built — one that crawled the site looking for cut-and-paste page moves so administrators could fix them — when a SanDisk microSD card failed, and he had no backup. That single failure is what turned him from a SanDisk loyalist into a critic, and it's the thread connecting his Wikipedia bot work to his current testing project.
For readers, that context matters: the site is not neutral product coverage. It's one person's sustained, documented experience, with the data published openly enough that you can check his conclusions against his records.