It's not unknown for a hard disk to fail even with 20Gb of free space and still quite young. I've had 2 disks die on me and it "sounds" like yours is moribund. "Clunking" retries - takes a random, sometimes long time to find data?
Total disk failure is looming.
Don't do any...
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