A head gimbal assembly includes a slider, a suspension to support the slider, and a flexible printed circuit provided to the suspension. The flexible printed circuit includes multiple traces to electrically connect the slider to a conductive tab and a test tab. The flexible printed circuit includes a grounding trace to ground the flexible printed circuit at the test tab.

 
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