The 2008 crisis was characterized by a sharp drop in demand, which initially caused storages overstock . TN production capacities tuned under the new demand level lately reacted to the updated interest in products with natural delay, which provoked the appearance of scarcity in some positions.
Associate reports that in the desktop and server market segments arose the scarcity of hard disks standard size 3.5 ", which will be hardly fixed earlier than March 2010. In the present year hard disks producers were already forced to increase the release volumes of 2.5 inches HDD, since the demand on notebook grew by anticipating expectation rates.
WD and Seagate Companies at present control about 80% of market for hard disks standard size 3.5 "; therefore, the solution of the problem with the scarcity depends on their actions.