Does Time Machine Make My Book Studio Sleep to Prevent Wear & Tear?

Hi. I don't use the WD SmartWare from Western Digital and have deleted it on my My Book Studio external backup for Time Machine. With just this external Firewire hardisk and Time Machine, does it make it do some kind of "sleep" so it won't have as much wear & tear or regardless of software or hadisks have this sleep feature built-in them? Thank you in advance.
Gbu.

Hard disk sleep is controlled by the Energy Saver preference pane. It doesn't always work with external hard drives.
About Energy Saver sleep and idle modes in Mac OS X

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