these days its not just brand but the supplier itself which should be verified before buying, LOADS of chinese knockoffs of tech like SSD's and graphics cards are getting sold on 3rd party markets with "hacked" firmware that make it seem like a reputable company made it or that it has the specs you think you want but it doesn't actually i remember buying "kingston" thumbdrives that were a fraction of the capacity and they weren't actually kingston. Couldn't tell till it arrived, my fault for cheaping out though and no be aware