Time for a new HDD?

Just looking for some verification of my suspicions with my MBP. About two days ago I noticed my browser was sluggish, but just thought it was a network issue. Last night, basically every click resulted in a beach ball. On a restart, jt took a good five minutes to get to log in and the same awful performance.
I verified the disk and it said it needed repair. So I start pulling files off and attempted to do a Superduper clone, but that hung up. I did manage to get a Time Machine backup done overnight and it was actually running Ok this AM after leaving it on overnight. Gave me a chance to copy more individual files. Ran disk utility off the cd drive and tried a repair which failed.
The quick hardware test says everything is fine. Im running the long one now.
So between my year old clone (I know,not very diligent with backup), recent Time Machine backup and just copying docs and media, I think I'm prepared to recover at this point (just hope I have my MS Office key).
My question is if this sounds like a hard dive that is ready to call it quits. I cant recall any new software or anything significant I've done recently that would have screwed up the disk on the software side. Trying to avoid wasting time on setting things back up just to have it fail. Sorry for any typos or missing punctuation, typing long form on an iPad really is terrible.
Computer is a 15" MBP i7. About 3 years old now, but i guess they do t make hard drives like they used to. As evidenced by the OEMs cutting their warranties. Never had a drive fail when I had PCs and this was my first Mac, so I'm not sure what else to check.

Good move in backing up your Mac. As you noted you shoud have a current backup at all times anyway.
First, disks are disks and they fail at the same rate in Macs and PCs. It is not yet clear that yours is failing, but it could be. Let's assume it is the disk or the filesystem and proceed with that. If it is not, then it could be incompatible software causing the issue.
With a sudden slowdown, if you have not changed any software, the disk is a prime suspect. To check this issue run Disk Utiity (from the Applications > Utilities folder).
Click on the upper left disk name and see if the S.M.A.R.T. status says "Verified". If it doesn't then the hard drive is indeed failing. Stop there and report back.
Click on Verify Disk and report back any error message in red or that if finished normally with an green OK message.
Then click on the volume icon (indented below the disk icon, usually called "Macintosh HD"). Click on Verify Disk again and again report any red error messages or the it finished with a green OK message.
If it did not finish normally it will instruct you to boot from the recovery partition and repair the disk from there.
Boot from the recovery partition, start Disk Utility, and repair this disk.
http://pondini.org/OSX/DU6.html
If this cured the problem then see if it boots and runs OK. If not reïnstall OS X.
Select Reïnstall OS X, then click Continue.
Follow the onscreen instructions. In the pane where you select a disk, select your current OS X disk (in most cases, it’s the only one available).
If that did not fix the problem then it is probably a software issue.

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