Failing mid-2010 mini server drive - warranty?

I have a mid-2010 mini server - you know, the one with "server" class hard drives - and it started exhibiting dying behavior - it would freeze, or nearly so, and the logs reported all sorts of I/O errors. I scanned for bad blocks and out of the 500GB drive there were 765 bad blocks. I figure at this point I should just replace it, but that's $200 for the drive (Seagate 750GB hybrid) and $100 to install it because it's so hard to install in the mini.
Apple only provides a one year warranty. Drives often come with a longer warranty, though. So, is there a longer warranty for the drive itself?

765 bad blocks out of almost 1gig blocks is pretty small.
(a 500 gig drive contains ~1gig, 512 byte blocks).
Suggest save all the data you can from it and
repartiton and erase with the write zeroes option.
This forces the drive to map out bad blocks. Then
reinstall what ever was on the drive.
I had a similar situation and had found about 500
bad blocks. Did the above and it has been working fine for
over a year now.
Do what I have explained and avoid the unnecessary
hassle and cost. If it doesn't work, then worry.
Sometimes blocks just go bad for any number of reasons
on any type of drive, even "server" grade.
Anyway, as to manufacturer warranty on the drive, not
sure how it works with drives that are OEM.

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