landing zone 40 landing zone 40 is textured using any appropriate texturing technique such as laser texturing to thereby form bumps protrusions reliefs or other asperities 44 asperities 44 can have any desired shape configuration size or density and can be formed as protrusions from disc 12 or as reliefs into disc 12 slider 36 includes a plurality of pads 46 asperities 44 and pads 46 function in conjunction to reduce stiction between slider 36 and landing zone 40 this configuration allows the slider 36 to fly at a lower level because some of the spacing used to reduce stiction is shared with asperities 44 the lower fly height improves recording performance and allows for increased storage density pads 46 can be for example made of diamond like carbon dlc which has excellent tribological properties however other materials can also be used such as silicon carbon sic the pads 46 also permit a higher level of interference between the slider 36 and the disc 12 because they are made of diamond like carbon which has excellent wear properties this wear occurs on pads 46 instead of on the slider 36 or on disc 12 if the height and placement of pads 46 is chosen appropriately the wear will reach a steady state and stiction will remain at very low levels over the entire life of the interface the addition of diamond like carbon pads to the slider 36 allows a reduction in the height of asperities 44 while still providing good stiction and wear.