I've had a super slim PS3 for the past three years and it now seems to be failing (possibly the hard drive).

 

 

Some of my games have audio issues, random pop-in/out and minor freezes but a number of games work fine.

 

 

So yesterday I did the following:

 

 

PS3 Restore > File System Restore > Database Rebuild and I thought I'd do a final File System Restore for good measure which all went fine.

 

 

So then I download the patches for Metal Gear Solid V and then decided to go back and do a File System Restore and it went to 35% and for four hours progressed slowly to about 50% before it went black and restarted (15-20 mins later) and told me the file system was corrupted and needed to be restored.

 

 

I've read on other message boards that the hard drive may need replacing and I just wanted to see if Geekzone members share that same opinion before taking the console in for repair.