The invention includes sliders provided with indented surfaces, reducing
the roll center for head gimbal assemblies below the effective thickness
of the slider. Head gimbal assemblies built with these sliders may reduce
off-track displacements induced by disk vibration. The load beam gimbal
may contact the indented surface, creating a slider roll center less than
the slider thickness. Alternatively, the sliders may include a slider
contact cover interfacing to the load beam forming the gimbal. The slider
contact covers may couple with the slider through an indented surface
located closer than the slider thickness. These may have a negative
slider roll center. The invention includes actuator arms, actuator
assemblies, and hard disk drives including these head gimbal assemblies.
The invention includes making the invention's sliders, head gimbal
assemblies, actuator arms, actuator assemblies, and hard disk drives. The
invention includes the products of these processes.