When SanDisk purchased us just over 2 years ago, all of the downloads were opened to the public.all that testing was done a while ago too, and a lot of it wasn't on the greatest systems even then, but both drives are still kicking along flawlessly in storage boxes though.
would have been nice to have been able to get the 1.2tb iodrive 2 for a decent price, but this was all done nearly 2 years ago, the drivers\firmware were all locked down under service contracts and i ended up finding a friend of a friend that could get them for me.
The Dell and HP drivers were locked to Dell and HP branded gear, but you could still get the regular drivers and firmware from supermicro or Fujitsu, they were never locked to the part number.