{"id":37214,"date":"2025-02-25T00:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T23:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=37214"},"modified":"2025-02-24T07:00:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T06:00:19","slug":"adaptec-download-site-is-dead-its-now-microchip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2025\/02\/25\/adaptec-download-site-is-dead-its-now-microchip\/","title":{"rendered":"Adaptec download site is dead &#8211; it's now Microchip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/20\/adaptec-download-bereich-tot-ist-jetzt-microchip\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">German<\/a>]Brief information for people who may still be looking for drivers and firmware from Adaptec. The download area is no longer available &#8211; thanks to the reader who contacted me about this. The downloads should now be available at Microchip.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Adaptec, Inc. was a computer memory company and is still a brand for computer memory products. The company was an independent company from 1981 until 2010, when it was acquired by PMC-Sierra, which in turn was later acquired by Microsemi, which in turn was later acquired by Microchip Technology.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.postimg.cc\/BQJy5tM1\/CLIP-600-E03-E2.jpg\" alt=\"Adaptec Download site\" width=\"584\" height=\"112\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Previously, firmware, software and drivers etc. could be downloaded at download.adaptec.com. Benjamin H. contacted me\u00a0 by e-mail and wrote that the page in question has been \"down\" since February 18, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>However, if you go to adaptec.com, you are redirected to <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.microsemi.com\/en-us\/support\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">storage.microsemi.com<\/a>. The page matches the ownership structure outlined above. And in their <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.microsemi.com\/en-us\/support\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">support area<\/a> there are various entries that links to support pages with downloads. Should actually be the old Adaptec download offer. But some German blog readers told me, that a couple of download links are still dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]Brief information for people who may still be looking for drivers and firmware from Adaptec. The download area is no longer available &#8211; thanks to the reader who contacted me about this. The downloads should now be available at Microchip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1319],"tags":[1544],"class_list":["post-37214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37215,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37214\/revisions\/37215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}