I have had a maxtor 250 gb and a maxor 40 gig in my cps for djing since feb of this year. Have all my music on the 250gig and run VDJ and all windows stuff on the 40 gig. Have never had a blue screen or anything. maybe just a bad HD? I did have another external 250 that crapped out after 6months though. Now im scared....Back up is also on a maxtor.