Manufacturers Feedback

Positive Feedback

• ASUS for motherboards: never had a problem.
• ASUS for video cards: good brand for Nvidia cards.
• ASUS for smartphones: Asus Zenfone Max Pro M2 is an excellent phone.
• Realme for smartphones: excellent phones.
• Logitech: great brand for mice & keyboards.
• Crucial: good brand for memory (RAM).
• Corsair: good brand for memory (RAM).
• Patriot: good brand for memory (RAM).
• Noctua: reputed (but expensive) brand for CPU coolers and computer fans.
• Be Quiet!: good brand for Power Supply Units (they are quiet).
• Raspberry Pi Foundation: the Raspberry Pi are just excellent single-board computers.
• Samsung: good for SSDs and microSD cards.

General Feedback

• Corsair Power Supply (VS550 550W) fan started making awful noise and had to be replaced after about 3 years.

Bad experiences, but can still be purchased

Kingston

• A SSD drive stopped working (many I/O errors).
• An USB key stopped working (losing everything stored on it).

ADATA

• An USB key stopped working (after less than one year of use).

Never buy again from those

Here is a list of manufacturers I will never buy again due to various reasons. Boycott them! :)

nVidia

• Their Linux binary drivers, while ok regarding performance, make the computer hard crash very often (sometimes several times / day). The nouveau drivers are not good enough at this stage, so don't buy nVidia again until they fix this problem (if they ever fix it).

Thor Zone

• Unfortunately, extremely bad design and quality from this manufacturer. I wished they would have succeeded since they operate on crowdfunding but this was a total disaster.

Samsung

• Don't buy smartphones from Samsung due to Bixby (and poor case design). Samsung is OK for other products though.

QNAP

• Their NAS / Media Players are way too unstable and are a pain to use in the end. One of two was toasted after a while too. Just awful.

Asustor

• A bit better than QNAP but not by much. Very bad OS, impossible to install Kodi without a lot of pain. Usable only as a pure NAS.

Dane Elec

• Bought two SD cards from them, both were entirely unreadable after a while. I lost all my camera photos on them, twice!

Labtec

• Lousy computer speakers. Only one works out of three.

Razer

• This manufacturer builds gaming mouses. They are extremely expensive, however my first Copperhead mouse stopped working after only two years (a button was destroyed) and my current Lachesis mouse (80 $) "jumps" all the time. This is entirely unacceptable, my next buy will be a Logitech I guess.
• Also, their support totally sucks and they don't have any Linux drivers.

ThermalTake

• Poor quality CPU fan (noisy).

Bork

• Poor vacuum cleaner.