With the acoustic foam pulled off and placed back in the casing, the architecture of the PCBA is revealed. The black diamond shape on the left is the power driver, which runs the motors that enable the drive to perform data reading and writing capabilities.
The diamond shape on the lower right is the SOC, or system-on-a-chip, which comprises the brains of the disk's operations. The CPU, host interface, cache controller, and a small bit of flash memory are located here.
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