Buffalo Warranty Check?

[CaptainSpalding]

I bought a used Buffalo Ministation 1Tb and it was DOA, but the seller had no money for refund.

 

It was very cheap and I did not want any excessive drama, so I thought I could RMA it.

 

But how can I check is it still in warranty?

 

I could not find any s/n checker from Buffalo's webpages. 

[garycase]

Most models of the Ministation are only warranted for one year, so it's very unlikely it's covered by warranty.    In addition, even if you're within that period, Buffalo requires a copy of the original proof of purchase for the unit -- so unless you get that from the seller you're out of luck anyway [and if you DO get it, you'll know from the date whether or not the unit is still under warranty  ]

 

 

[CaptainSpalding]

Ok, thanks!

 

Off to the garbage bin then. 

[CaptainSpalding]

Well, I though I'd just test it for the last time and the disk was found in the Disk Manager, but did not initialize. Then I read that it could be a failed controller.

 

So I just opened the damn thing and tested if the disk would still work.

 

And it WORKS!!! Also had something like 95 hours only of power on time! 

 

 

[vl1969]

yeah,  I had one of those.

give it to my inlows for backup storage, and it died in 1 year.

spent 2 days trying to recover the files but disk would disconnect in the middle of transfer. finally just cracked  the thing a part, and used the sata to usb cord and all files where there no problem.

still have the HDD from it.

[garycase]

Good news.  At least you got the TB of storage you had expected.