Patent ID: 7375915

Claim:
A disk drive comprising: a drive housing; a storage disk that is rotatably coupled to the drive housing; a slider assembly including a head that interacts with the storage disk during a data transfer operation, and a slider mover; and a drive circuitry that directs a first power level to the slider mover to maintain the head at a first head-to-disk (HtD) spacing, and a second power level to the slider mover to maintain the head at a second HtD spacing, and a variable, transition power to the slider mover during a transition between the first power level being directed to the slider mover and the second power level being directed to the slider mover, wherein the transition power is less than the second power level during at least a portion of the transition, and wherein the head is at the first HtD spacing during at least a portion of the data transfer operation.