  We study the thermodynamics and the jet quenching parameter of a black hole
solution dual to a SQCD-like plasma which includes the backreaction of
fundamental flavors. The free energy is calculated in several ways, including
some recently proposed holographic renormalization prescriptions. The validity
of the latter is confirmed by the consistency with the other methods. The
resulting thermodynamic properties are similar to the Little String Theory
ones: the temperature is fixed at the Hagedorn value and the free energy is
vanishing. Finally, an accurate analysis of the relevant string configurations
shows that the jet quenching parameter is zero in this model, in agreement with
previous findings.
