What are the signs of a HD failing?

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I have a Maxtor HD (not sure if that matters or not). It was fine at first, but after a couple of months it's become very noisy - almost like it is struggling to read the data - yes it is a little slower in reading data too.

Is this a sign that it is about to fail, or should noise not matter?
 
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