the other day i had 2 Maxtor HDD go down, now the 160Gb HDD was fixable by doing a Low Level Format
BTW: i know LLF doesn't really exist anymore, but, the "term" is still used, but, all it really means nowadays is zero fill (write a zero to every part of the HDD)
anyway i blanked the 160Gb HDD with
DBAN (took about 4 hours, but, i have a working HDD)
so, i'm back on Kubuntu but i still need another HDD, possibly i'll try Debian, but i'm defiantly buying a Seagate HDDs use liquid bearings obviously unlike maxtor
maybe seagate (who owns maxtor) will start using liquid bearings on maxtor HDDs, pwease seagate