25.5 in. iMac with six "bad blocks" int. Can HD - I simply use cloned only external drive?

I have a 25.5 in., 3.3, 2 TB, 8g RAM iMac and upward to bad six blocks on the internal drive - this number recently increased by 4.  Is a sign imminent disk failure and could I clone the HD, then ignore it and start with, install and use the cloned disk buffer hard all the time.  Fix an internal hard drive won't be cheap, I couldn't do it myself, and as the i - Mac has more than six years would it be preferable to replace it completely?  Until he gave up completely, I could just ignore the internal drive and do everything from the clone?  Help please?

Thank you.

William

OSX - El captain

You must serve 21.5 ". There is no iMacs 25.5 ".

Yes, you can clone internally externally and start from the outside. I did for a while with my iMac 2007 when it is completely failed the internal disk.

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