Lexar SSD drivers: "Due to US Government requirements, the download is temporarily unavailable."

[Bender Blues]

WTF.

The base windows placeholder drivers need to go.

 

So what does one do when you can't get the drivers from the source?!

https://www.lexar.com/en/download_cat/ssd

 

Its their 240gb version. 

Big Gov allows tick tock bs, spying apps etc.... but Lexar isn't allowed to offer a driver.

[PDifolco]

Use a VPN

[LWM723]

You don't need drivers for an SSD.

[C2dan88]

From uk. There is no drivers offered for that ssd on that page. Only data shield encryption and lexar dash utility (similar to the Samsung magician).

 

Default Microsoft driver should work. What issues are you having?

[Kid.Lazer]

Did you actually click any of the links? I'm from the US, not on a VPN, and could download everything there just fine.

 

And as @LWM723 said, you don't drivers for your SSD.

[OddOod]

Not sure what you need or how you got the error, but as a USian, I got everything off that page and dumped it here

 

1876633367_LexarDataShieldforWindows.zip Lexar DataShield for Mac.zip

[OddOod]

...and here

1487702871_LexarSSDDash.zip

[Bender Blues]

20 minutes ago, Kid.Lazer said:

Did you actually click any of the links? I'm from the US, not on a VPN, and could download everything there just fine.

 

And as @LWM723 said, you don't drivers for your SSD.

Why would I not have?

No you can't download whats inportant here, the drivers. The dash yes, manual yes not drivers.

And theres no drivers to point to in the dash.

 

Looking through Tor (denmark). The US GOV message isn't even there. Nor is there for any drivers.

 

Just got off the phone with them, its news to them, they haven't got a call about it.

Told them about going through a vpn and links are there for manual, dash etc. But no drivers.

[Bender Blues]

29 minutes ago, LWM723 said:

You don't need drivers for an SSD.

 

I hope your not saying that default placeholder drivers from MS are the same as drivers from the manufacture.

 

Just because it works (it functions), doesn't mean its optimized.

[Kilrah]

An SSD is completely generic, there is nothing a manufacturer driver would give you over generic ones. Usually if there are any they tend to be worse.

 

In this case the reason you see no drivers isn't that popup, it's that none exist. Message would be about drive firmware if any, and it seems it appears regardless of whether there are any or not.

[Bender Blues]

15 minutes ago, OddOod said:

Not sure what you need or how you got the error, but as a USian, I got everything off that page and dumped it here

 

1876633367_LexarDataShieldforWindows.zip 14 MB · 0 downloads Lexar DataShield for Mac.zip 1.92 MB · 0 downloads

Everything but the drivers.

I've already seen the utility and manual. 

 

Data shield is added encryption.

There are no drivers. Through Tor (Denmark) or the US.

 

 

[LWM723]

There are NO manufacturer drivers. Don't know why you think there are.

[Bender Blues]

Just now, Kilrah said:

An SSD is completely generic, there is nothing a manufacturer driver would give you over generic ones. Usually if there are any they tend to be worse.

 

In this case the reason you see no drivers isn't that popup, it's that none exist.

Assumed on my part a driver from today would be better then a driver from MS in 2012.

Gotcha, thank you. Cheers. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

6 minutes ago, Bender Blues said:

Data shield is added encryption.

Id probably just use the encryption in your OS(so bitlocker for windows). Probably much more tests and security audits on bitlocker, than a ssd makers software, and better integrated into windows also.

[Birblover12]

What exactly would an SSD "driver" do..? It's not like a GPU where new applications come out requiring an update. An SSD will just keep going at the same speed until it gets so full of junk that it slows down (afaik). So not sure what the driver update's intended purpose is lol.

[Kilrah]

4 hours ago, Bender Blues said:

Assumed on my part a driver from today would be better then a driver from MS in 2012.

If there is a driver it's for your board/chipset's SATA controller. What happens between it and the drive is standard, there isn't even anything for the OS to take part in.