They came in 2.5 inch form factor from the very beginning, the laptop shape... which fits pretty much anything. Desktops and servers use it.
The packaging was trivial. They were just cost prohibitive for anything more than an operating system drive.
This worked out to our benefit, the OS is where random access performance shines
It might be fair to say flash used in SSDs started in other applications... but it's important to remember that's also different flash.
It wasn't until the flash changed significantly that we got SSDs (durability), changing everything we once knew. Price, applications, etc.
They came in 2.5 inch form factor from the very beginning, the laptop shape... which fits pretty much anything. Desktops and servers use it.
The packaging was trivial. They were just cost prohibitive for anything more than an operating system drive.
This worked out to our benefit, the OS is where random access performance shines
It might be fair to say flash used in SSDs started in other applications... but it's important to remember that's also different flash.
It wasn't until the flash changed significantly that we got SSDs (durability), changing everything we once knew. Price, applications, etc.