Undoing even more screws lifts the PCBA (printed circuit board assembly) electronic architecture from the rest of the disk's casing. The gray sheet is called acoustic foam, which is meant to buffer the sound coming from the drive.
In the case of many notebooks, "the disk drive is 18 inches from your ear," said Ashley Lo, Western Digital's senior director of customer quality assurance. "We want to make the quietest drive you can get."
The outer sticker on the drive (not pictured) is coated with a mechanical backing to further dampen the sound.
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