Hard disk is failing?

My hard disk in my 3 year old 27" iMac has been chattering  lot - essentially all the time - even though nothing seems to be running.  I downloaded SMART Utility for Mac and ran it it.  It says my hard drive is failing.   It shows 61 Reallocated Bad Sectors.  How reliable is this?  Should I bring this in to the Apple store? 

Hi,
Yes.
You probalby need to bring it to the Apple Store. And try to make a time machine backup asap on an external device.

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