should i replace my 8 year old hard drive?

Amal__447

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My 8 year old Hitachi hard drive is finally showing some problems. Windows takes a lot of time to boot (sometimes upto 1 hour) but reinstalling the OS solved it for the time being. Now it is showing warning alerts that my hard drive is failing. Sometimes windows cannot read the hdd and i have to force restart it.
Should i get a new one?