A head suspension prevents a read element from electrostatic discharge
damage without employing a static electricity remover or without
increasing the number of manufacturing processes. The head suspension has
a load beam to apply load to a head that writes and reads data to and
from a hard disk, a flexure made of a conductive thin substrate attached
to the load beam and supporting the head, an insulating base layer made
of flexible resin and formed on the substrate of the flexure, write wires
and read wires connected to the head and formed on the insulating base
layer, and an insulating cover layer covering the write and read wires on
the insulating base layer. The insulating cover layer is made of slightly
conductive flexible resin.