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Matt Cole
Personal blog · bahjeez.comhardwaredata
Matt Cole's personal blog at bahjeez.com covers hardware and data. Since 2024, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “The Capacity, Performance, and Reliability of MicroSD Cards”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Matt Cole's posts test the capacity, performance and reliability of microSD cards, including industrial and high-endurance cards from Kingston, Samsung and SanDisk.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Capacity, Performance, and Reliability of MicroSD Cards4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-11-21
What Hacker News says?
They've tested industrial and high endurance cards from Kingston, Samsung and SanDisk: https://www.bahjeez.com/all-microsd-card-results/
Comment linking /all-microsd-card-results/
on “How reliable are MicroSD cards?”Submitted The Capacity, Performance, and Reliability of MicroSD Cards as a story · 55 points
HN discussionFlash endurance gets a sort of odd amount of discussion on the Internet, and this adds to the small amount of public data from running lots of Flash devices to exhaustion. (MicroSD != SSD, of course, but it's something.) Seems possible that by charting it, you could find a "bathtub curve" (early failures/steady state/failures due to use) of failures, probably more than one curve breaking up by category--tiny "indust…
Comment linking /the-great-microsd-card-survey/all-microsd-card-results/
on “The Capacity, Performance, and Reliability of MicroSD Cards”Submitted On the capacity, performance, and reliability of microSD cards as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted The great MicroSD card survey as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Capacity, Performance, and Reliability of MicroSD Cards as a story · 1 points
HN discussion