A hard disk drive is provided with a platter, a spindle motor for driving the platter, an arm with a magnetic head attached to a distal end thereof, a voice coil motor for driving the arm, a first circuit substrate, and a drive casing for accommodating and electrically shielding the platter, spindle motor, arm, voice coil motor, and first circuit substrate. The first circuit substrate has a multilayer substrate, a plurality of digital ICs that is embedded as bare chips in the multilayer substrate, and a bus line for connecting the digital ICs. The digital ICs are disposed in a mutually horizontal configuration.