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Toshiba Libra MK4058GSX HDD: Leaves People in Awe of its Storage Capacity

By James • Mar 20th, 2009 • Category: Uncategorized

The Libra – MK4058GSX Hard Disk from the Japanese corporation Toshiba is the latest 400 GB drive that leaves everybody stunned over how much storage can this small drive can store.

The size of this drive is half the size of your regular matchbox. Toshiba has claimed that this drive can save a lot of space, up to 40%  of space in your portable machine. The compact Toshiba MK4058GSX 400GB connects to your portable machine via the SATA port. Even if you connect this drive to your desktop, it gives you a satisfying result.

This drive has reported an average read speed of 14.6MB/sand also reported random access time of 20.8ms. The read speed of this hard drive has declined in to deeper to its storage space and its CPU utilization has figured at 8%. It has shown its burst speed hit of 118.8MB/s.

When pitted against a notebook hard drive, it has been found that it has shown decline in its sequential read speed in a “Western Digital WD32”. In the benchmarks however it has performed better. The read speed and burst speed has shown that it has shown the speed benefit of a traditional laptop drive.

This drive is not designed for daily use and this drive will be impressive when it is paired. This is a performance monster and does an excellent job in offering you excellent storage space in such a small container.

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  1. hi

    i have problems with toshiba mk4958gsx hdd

    my laptop can not known it in qosmio f30

    os vista 32 bit sp2

    i need driver for this device

    thank you very much

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