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. 

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  ]

 

 

Ok, thanks!

 

Off to the garbage bin then. 

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! 

 

 

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.

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