Can you overwork a hard disk drive by not having enough RAM?

Does anyone know if you can overwork a hard drive by not having enough RAM and cause it to fail prematurely?

Is seems logical, but I cannot find information on this issue.

If so, what premature damage would be done?
For example, can sectors get "worn out" and become bad blocks because of excessive paging?
Bad heads?

Thanks

I agree with the poster above me, I have a feeling though that as with any mechanical device the less you use it the longer it should last (in thoery at least anyway)

I think having a ton of RAM is always a good thing anyway

Using Windows or even Linux without enough RAM will cause it to start paging the HD all the time. Not only it will make your PC slow and miserable, it will also make it noisy, and hot and yes the HD's life span is getting smaller and smaller as long as it keeps spinning. Data corruption is more likely to occur due to overheating and the constant read-writing over and over. Thankfully todays hard drives come with perpendicular technology to prevent data corruption and some come with Enterprise environment firmwares to prolong even further their lifetime when constantly switched on (but still not when constantly read-writing).
So get some RAM and a new Perp. tech drive and you will feel a little bit safer!

Thanks for all the info. It was helpful.