In reply to Fredt:
Some wheels are just prone to snapping spokes due to poor design, this is only going to get worse as disks move on to road bikes IMO as there will be less dish to the wheel and spokes will need to be tighter to get a tight wheel.
I had an old hub called a mailard helicomatic that would break a spoke about every 100 miles.
Considering it is a disk brake wheel I'm surprised the rim went to easily, normally rims last longer with disk brakes because they aren't worn through. This would suggest that you need to run fatter tyres or higher tyre pressures.
If you don't want to spend much cash the cheap shimano hubs are usually pretty fool proof.