Only system to ever crap out on me was the original Xbox... DRE with the Thompson drive. This was like 2 months after I bought the system, so I was still on warranty, thankfully, and I shipped it back and got one of the good drives. Never had a problem with PS2 and I've been playing that since 2001, although a dirty CD-based game will sometimes take forever to load (usually a good cleaning of the CD and a run through with a CD lens cleaner on the system does the trick).