Air bearing with both low altitude and speed sensitivities

A data recording device comprising:

• a disk with a data surface of concentric data tracks;
• a rotator for rotating said disk about an axis generally perpendicular to the disk;
• a slider maintained in operative relationship with the data surface when the disk is rotating, said slider having an air bearing surface (ABS), said ABS comprising:
• a center channel;
• a plurality of side channels, wherein at least one side channel of said plurality of side channels is open to said center channel and one of said plurality of side channels is not open to said center channel;
• a plurality of pocket areas, wherein said center channel, said plurality of side channels, and said plurality of pocket areas are configured to allow air to flow along said center channel toward the trailing edge (TE) of said ABS, such that a change in ambient pressure and a change in relative velocity of a head assembly with respect to a data storage medium of a data storage device will not significantly affect the fly height (FH) of said head assembly utilizing said ABS;
• a transducer attached to said slider for reading data from and writing data to the data surface;
• an actuator for moving said slider generally radially to the disk to allow the transducer to access the data tracks;
• and
• an electronic module for processing data read from and written to the data surface.