Patent ID: 8456776

Claim:
A disk drive comprising: a disk drive base; a disk rotably mounted to the disk drive base; an actuator rotably mounted to the disk drive base; and a head gimbal assembly attached to the actuator, the head gimbal assembly comprising a head that comprises a slider that includes an air bearing surface (ABS), a trailing face, and a back face that is opposite the ABS and that faces away from the ABS, the slider defining a slider height measured in a direction that is normal to the ABS; a magnetic sensor that is disposed on the trailing face; and a plurality of head bond pads that are disposed on the trailing face and that are electrically conductive; and a laser light source that is disposed on the back face, the laser light source defining a laser light source thickness measured in the direction that is normal to the ABS; and a suspension assembly that comprises a load beam; a flexure, the flexure including a tongue, a first side of the tongue in contact with the load beam, and an opposing second side of the tongue attached to the laser light source; and a flexure bond pad shelf that is approximately parallel to the tongue; and a plurality of flexure bond pads that are disposed on the flexure bond pad shelf and that are electrically conductive, wherein the plurality of flexure bond pads are electrically connected to respective ones of the plurality of head bond pads; and wherein the flexure includes a plurality of bends offsetting the flexure bond pad shelf from the tongue by an offset distance measured in the direction that is normal to the ABS and being no less than 30% the slider height.