My exact advice was get novatecs or powerway hubs and spend the money on the rims (specifically when you were looking at ebay bargains of dubious provenance) as IME hubs are generally much of a muchness.
I’m sure the DT would last a lot longer than the bearings in the Novatec’s. But then apart form a Hope hub shell I’ve never killed a hub in a way that wasn’t a cheap and simple fix. So “quality” is all relative.
Chris King – Concratulations, you own a £500 hub set that will last at least 10 years without any problems, but will be obsolesced in 5 years by 3mm wider road-micro-boost spacing.
DT – expensive and noisy
Hope – possibly overpriced compared to similar hubs from the far east, but awesome colours and when parts do wear out they’re available, generally cheap and a cinch to replace.
Novatec/bitex/powerway – available in any colour you like as long as it’s black. And at ~1/3 the price of DT and Hope you would need to be doing some serious mileage* to be getting through hub internals quickly enough to make the DT’s look attractive.
*arguably disk brakes tip the balance in favour of DT a bit, with rim brakes there really wasn’t much point in a hub that would outlast a rim and cost multiples of the price, even the poverty spec unsealed shimano hubs would last till the rim was toast.