Patent ID: 7643240

Claim:
A hard disk drive (HDD) device comprising: a housing; a magnetic storage medium coupled to said housing, said magnetic storage medium configured to rotate relative to said housing; an actuator arm coupled to said housing, said actuator arm configured to move relative to said magnetic storage medium; a magnetic read/write head coupled to said actuator arm, said magnetic read/write head configured to magnetically write data to and magnetically read data from said magnetic storage medium; and a thermal-sensitive fly-height gain substrate configured to couple with said actuator arm, said thermal-sensitive fly-height gain substrate configured to increase a fly-height associated with said magnetic read/write head when said magnetic read/write head is permanently disabled wherein said thermal-sensitive fly-height gain substrate is configured to increase said fly-height by raising said actuator arm such that said magnetic read/write head is raised relative to said magnetic storage medium.