I heard about a million times that, and that you could also destroy the hard drive by reading the first and last track many times in secession. If at all truth

I heard about a million times that, and that you could also destroy the hard drive by reading the first and last track many times in secession. If at all truth, it was in very specific HW (I was in touch with really, really, really big amounts of people in the industry and HW, and have never first hand heard of that happening).