iMac 27 "Late 2009 EtreCheck poster"Drive Failure!"

Hello

My iMac has been terribly slow recently. 27 "late 2009. Intel i7 8GM RAM 1 TB drive. I was doing the seemings beach ball every few minutes.  I ran an EtreCheck and that's what it produces:

For me, obviously the entrance of the inability to drive.  At this point, I have to replace the hard drive?

Thank you in advance.

EtreCheck version: 2.7.6 (236)

Report generated 2016-01-20 23:31:45

Download EtreCheck from http://etrecheck.com

Time 02:00

Performance: Excellent

Click the [Support] links to help with non-Apple products.

Click [details] for more information on this line.

Click on the link [check files] help with unknown files.

Problem: Beachballing

Description:

Beachball appears every few minutes. Usually, for 30 seconds or more at the time.

Hardware Information:

iMac (27-inch, late 2009)

[Data sheet] - [User Guide] - [Warranty & Service]

iMac - model: iMac11, 1

1 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 4 strands

8 GB of RAM expandable - [Instructions]

BANK 0/DIMM0

OK 2 GB DDR3 1067 MHz

BANK 1/DIMM0

OK 2 GB DDR3 1067 MHz

0/DIMM1 BANK

OK 2 GB DDR3 1067 MHz

BANK 1/DIMM1

OK 2 GB DDR3 1067 MHz

Bluetooth: Old - transfer/Airdrop2 not supported

Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n

Video information:

ATI Radeon HD 4850 - VRAM: 512 MB

iMac 2560 x 1440

Software:

OS X El Capitan 10.11.3 (15 d 21) - since startup time: less than an hour

Disc information:

ST31000528ASQ disk0: (1 TB) (rotation)

EFI (disk0s1) : 210 MB

Macintosh HD (disk0s2) /: 965,72 go-go (761,95 free) - 15 errors

Drive failure!

HD (disk0s3) [recovery] recovery: 650 MB

BOOTCAMP (disk0s4) / Volumes/BOOTCAMP: 33,63 (GB 33,61 free)

OPTIARC DVD RW AD - 5680H)

USB information:

Computer, Inc. Apple IR receiver.

Built-in ISight from Apple Inc..

Card reader Apple

Apple Inc. BRCM2046 hub.

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB host controller.

Guardian:

Mac App Store and identified developers

Unknown files:

/ Library/LaunchAgents/com. Flipvideo.FlipShare.Autorun.plist

A unknown file found. [Check files]

Kernel extensions:

/ System/Library/Extensions

[no charge] com.flipvideo.IOUSBCameraMassStorage (1.0.0) [Support]

Launch officers:

[loading] com.citrix.AuthManager_Mac.plist [Support]

[operation] com.citrix.ReceiverHelper.plist [Support]

[operation] com.citrix.ServiceRecords.plist [Support]

[operation] com.flipvideo.FlipShare.AutoRun.plist [Support]

[loading] com.google.keystone.agent.plist [Support]

[loading] com.oracle.java.Java - Updater.plist [Support]

Launch demons:

[loading] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist [Support]

[loading] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist [Support]

[loading] com.malwarebytes.MBAMHelperTool.plist [Support]

[loading] com.oracle.java.Helper - Tool.plist [Support]

User launch officers:

[failure] com.adobe.ARM. [...]. plist [Support] [details]

[loading] com.facebook.videochat. [entrenched passage] .plist [Support]

[loading] com.spotify.webhelper.plist [Support]

Items in user login:

CleanMyMac 3 Menu UNKNOWN (missing value)

Other applications:

[ongoing] com.etresoft.EtreCheck.80352

[ongoing] com.google.Chrome.2912

com.macpaw.CleanMyMac3.Agent [loading]

Plug-ins Internet:

o1dbrowserplugin: Version: 5.41.3.0 - SDK 10.8 [Support]

GameFacePlugin: Version: GameFacePlugin 1.5.3.0 - SDK 10.5 [Support]

Web of Google Earth plugin: Version: 6.0 [Support]

Default browser: Version: 601 - SDK 10.11

CouponPrinter-FireFox: Version: Version 1.1.5

OfficeLiveBrowserPlugin: Version: 12.3.6 [Support]

Unity Web Player: Version: UnityPlayer version 3.5.6f4 - 10.6 SDK [Support]

AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 10.1.15 [Support]

FlashPlayer - 10.6: Version: 20.0.0.286 - SDK 10.6 [Support]

Silverlight: Version: 5.1.20513.0 - SDK 10.6 [Support]

QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3

Flash Player: Version: 20.0.0.286 - SDK 10.6 [Support]

CitrixICAClientPlugIn: Version: 11.7.0 - SDK 10.7 [Support]

googletalkbrowserplugin: Version: 5.41.3.0 - SDK 10.8 [Support]

AdobePDFViewer: Version: 10.1.15 [Support]

iPhotoPhotocast: Version: 7.0

JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 8 update 65 build 17 check version

User Plug-ins internet:

fbplugin_1_0_1: Version: Unknown [Support]

Picasa: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.4 [Support]

3rd party preference panes:

Citrix ShareFile Sync [Support]

Flash Player [Support]

Java [Support]

Time Machine:

Time Machine not configured!

Top of page process CPU:

2% fontd

2% WindowServer

0% dock

0% kernel_task

0% askpermissiond

Top of page process of memory:

677 MB kernel_task

426 MB Google Chrome Helper (4)

262 MB mds_stores

Systemstatsd 188 MB

180 MB Google Chrome

Virtual memory information:

3.28 GB of free RAM

used 4.71 GB RAM (3.17 GB being cached)

Used Swap 0 B

Diagnostic information:

January 20, 2016, 23:23:23 ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/com.apple.prefs.backup.remoteservice_2016-01-2 0-232323_ [redacted] .crash

/System/library/PreferencePanes/TimeMachine.prefPane/contents/XPCServices/com.a people.prefs.backup.remoteservice.xpc/Contents/MacOS/com.apple.prefs.backup.remote service

20 January 2016, 22:40:40 self-test - spent

January 20, 2016, 10:38:05 PM/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/CleanMyMac 3_2016-01-20-223805_ .hang [deleted]

/ Applications/CleanMyMac 3.app/Contents/MacOS/CleanMyMac 3

I only noticed this problem after I upgraded to El Capitan, this is why I placed it in this area. I apologize if this is in the wrong place.

Tags: Mac OS & System Software

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    Download EtreCheck from https://etrecheck.com

    Time 03:02

    Performance: good

    Click the [Support] links to help with non-Apple products.

    Click [details] for more information on this line.

    Verify the signatures of Apple: enabled

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