You are right. The RPM you are talking about is around 100x read speed - CDs fly apart around that rotational speed. That's why you don't see much past 52x CD-ROMs. They start going unstable past that approximate threshold (warping, etc.)
Turning it off during the middle of an access or whatever will do nothing harmful.
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