The logic board is positioned at the bottom of the hard disk. It contains most of the drive electronics such as servo control and cache buffers. Some drives make it possible to swap logic boards. Since it is never clear what's stored on the platter and what in stored in the logic-board memory swaps may lead to unpredictable results.

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