This is actually part of my worry too and I bought 2 units (of the 2x64GB) from the UK and Swedish sites and both are showing up as the same manufacturer etc. Would definitely like to hear from others that have them though to see how consistent things are over in North America.

I wonder the same thing.

I had a Kingston SATA SSD that failed. It didn't just become read-only, it failed completely and catastrophically. One day everything was there, the next day the drive couldn't access anything.

I delved deeper after that and now stick to major manufacturers.