Yes, but the number of hours they can withstand these reads is rather insane. I've seen SAS level drives with millions of hours of runtime and no bad blocks. They are pretty robust these days!
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Hard drives are quite reliable these days. According to the Backblaze stats, the annualized failure rate for modern drives is only about 1.5%. And these guys beat the living shit out of their drives.
Thanks a bunch for that link! That's a really useful resource!