Has my ibook turned into a dead duck

I mean that literally. Quite a few times now there has been severe slowdown with programs that has caused me no problem prior to the past few days. I ran all the usual things and cleared the cache (onyx) but sometimes it dies.
I'm waiting for diskwarrior to come through the mail so until then is there anything I should test? Some may think it's a memory problem but I doubt it. It looks more HD related.

hi Gordon,
I essentially did the same as you mentionned a few months ago. Backup by everything onto an external HD, clean installed everything and set it up. And for the past few months everything was working fine.
As you might have guessed I'm not connected to any servers or outside computers that might occupy FInder, and I have no startup items either.
I think that my HD is heading downhill, it's a shame 'cause it's only been a year and-a-half.
BTW, I wanted to buy an external HD but was worried about how often they 'stop working'. Seems like quality issues run poorly across the board of manufacturers (LaCie, Maxtor, etc.)
I heard that internal HD are more reliable and was thinking of setting up an internal HD with an external enclosure. DO you have any recommendations for a quality brand?

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