What is bahjeez.com (Matt Cole – My little corner of the Internet)?
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bahjeez.com is the personal website and blog of Matt Cole, described in its own title as "My little corner of the Internet." Its main draw is an ongoing, long-running microSD card endurance testing project: Cole reports having run endurance tests for 2.5 years, destroyed over 150 cards from more than 30 brands, and kept over 100 cards from 30 brands under active testing, with a browsable public database of the results. The site is a blog rather than a store, service, or product site.
What you'll find on the site
The site follows a standard personal-blog structure, with sections labeled Posts, Posts pagination, Recent Posts, Recent Comments, and Archives. In practice, that means:
- Long-form posts on Cole's testing work and technical projects, including an open letter to SanDisk titled "Dear SanDisk, Please Do Better."
- A public data set — Cole states he created a browsable database of his microSD endurance data for anyone to view.
- Project write-ups beyond storage testing, such as a Wikipedia bot he built to detect cut-and-paste page moves (where a user cuts content from one page, pastes it into another, and turns the original into a redirect, splitting the page history and orphaning the talk page).
Why the microSD testing gets attention
Cole's testing has been covered by outlets including TechRadar, TechSpot, Tom's Hardware, and IGN, according to his own post. The core claim behind the attention is scale and duration: years of continuous write load across a large sample of cards, rather than short benchmark runs.
A concrete example from the site illustrates the stakes: one of his SanDisk Ultra cards failed while holding the only copy of his Wikipedia bot's source code, which he says had no backup and is likely gone forever. That single failure is what turned his testing into a broader reliability investigation.
Who it's for
- Buyers comparing microSD brands who want endurance and failure data rather than peak speed ratings.
- Single-board computer users — Cole mentions using SanDisk Ultras as primary storage across a cluster of over 35 single-board computers.
- Anyone curious about long-term flash storage reliability, including how cards behave under sustained load.
What it is not
There are no pricing signals, payment platforms, or product listings on the site, so it isn't a shop. It's also not a general tech news outlet — coverage of his work appears elsewhere; bahjeez.com is where the raw testing and personal commentary live.