Seagate yesterday announced it is shipping a new hard disk, the Cheetah 15k.7, to OEMs and retailers. Aimed at the server segment, the seventh-generation Cheetah drive brings 600GB capacity, 6Gbps SAS and 4Gbps Fibre Channel, and new power management technology to the 3.5″, 15,000 RPM segment.

1TB disks now cost about $75, making disks one of the cheaper parts of a modern desktop or laptop computer. The HDD market is so commodified that products from competing vendors perform and cost roughly the same; quality differentials between brands are largely a thing of the past. There is, however, one segment of the hard disk market where prices and margins are high: SAS server disks with fast rotational speeds and SCSI interfaces. The current drive, the Cheetah 15k.6, tops out at 450GB for a trifling $500. No price has been announced for the 15k.7, but prior generations of Cheetahs have launched at $600. continue

Can you believe it’s been more than a year since Firefox 3 debuted? While that release smashed all sorts of download records, today sees the release of a major upgrade to that browser: Firefox 3.5.

As expected, Firefox 3.5 features a new private browsing mode, location-aware browsing, and support for the Ogg Theora video format. Most significant though, Firefox 3.5 significantly improves the performance of the browser. Mozilla claims that Firefox 3.5 is twice as fast as Firefox 3, and a whopping 10x faster than Firefox 2.0.
You can upgrade from your browser or download latest Firefox HERE.