External SSD corruption?

I have an external OWC SSD that I use to store my iTunes library. Three times now the filesystem on the SSD has become corrupted while TimeMachine was backing it up. I am open to the idea of this being an issue with the drive itself, but all three times this has happened, I plug the drive into a Win machine, format it, and run a disk check and it always reports that there are no issues; after which I put the drive back into my mac, format it, and throw my iTunes library back on it.
Has anyone else experienced anything like this before? After the ssd becomes corrupt, plugging it back into a mac will lock-up Finder.

You probably have a bad controller in the enclosure. Purchase another and see if the SSD will work (they're very inexpensive and some are simply better than others - I use OWC enclosures for all of my clone drives).
Good luck,
Clinton

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