Oooh, it seems that Fujitsu wants in on the small format hard drive market that Toshiba has been leading in. With everything from iPods to other small electronics devices coming out that use one form of a hard drive or another, the market seems to be booming.

While Apple has replaced its lower-capacity MP3 players like the iPod Mini with flash-based storage solutions that don't incorporate hard drives, other iPods continue to make use of the tiny parts.

According to VNUNet, Fujitsu is looking to make their entrance big, introducing a 1.8 inch hard drive with capacities up to 120 gigabytes. I hope that Apple takes notice of the drives and maybe uses them for a future iPod. That much storage space would be downright sexy.

[Via, VNUNet]

The 2GB iPod nano displayed amazing resilience to abuse during a stress test by Ars Technica: after throwing the device from a speeding vehicle at up to 50 Mph and running it over twice failed to stop the music from playing (despite its malfunctioning screen), according to the report. Ars finally manages to stop the music by throwing the Nano straight up into the air, roughly 40 feet, and letting it smash onto the concrete.

The autopsy reveals "amazing engineering" and the usage of Toshiba flash memory chips rather than Samsung memory. Apple has also apparently moved away from Synaptics for click wheel manufacturing: the click wheel inside the 2GB Nano dissected appears to be designed from scratch, according to the report.