A disk drive includes a drive circuitry, a storage disk, a suspension and
a slider. The slider is supported by the suspension and receives
electrical current from the drive circuitry. The slider includes a flying
side that generally faces the storage disk, a read/write head, and a
slider deformer that is electrically decoupled from the drive circuitry.
In one embodiment, the slider deformer is formed from a material having a
coefficient of thermal expansion that is greater than a coefficient of
thermal expansion of other portions of the slider. In this embodiment,
the slider deformer causes a deformation of a portion of the flying side
when the temperature of the slider deformer changes. Thus, when the
read/write head expands or contracts due to a change in temperature of
the slider, the slider deformer at least partially offsets the expansion
and/or contraction of the read/write head to maintain a substantially
consistent head-to-disk spacing of the disk drive.