That guy on ebay is a total crock. If you look carefully, the very unit that he is selling IS a drive pulled out of a mp3 player. The OEM unit has a black and white label (which is what he has). Whereas the RETAIL unit has a color label. I know because I have handled these. I am selling the OEM drives on ebay that are actually pulled from the muvo2. They work perfectly fine as a CF card. That ebay guy is simply formulating lies to edge out the competition.
quick shameless plug - if you need a 4gb hitachi microdrive, you can look for me on ebay as 4sevens. I have a few listed now and will continue to list them with bids starting at 0.01. I guarantee my drives for 30 days and after that it's hitachi's 1 year warranty....Show more →
Did you check with hitachi if the drives were under warranty? Normally oem devices are warrantied by the seller, which would be creative in this case.
? Impossible to find the muvo2 4 Go in France. In Belgium, a digital site announces that the hitachi microdrive 4 Go will be available in Europe in February. Price will be 640 € (812 us$) !!!!!
If someone wants to open an e-store ?! or resell on Ebay ?!
I didn't read anything about OEM drives - I believe it's covered as long as it retains the Hitachi label.
They have an OEM/end users return department.
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Inc.
c/o UPS Worldwide Logistics
Alvarado Business Park
OEM/end user Returns Department
30336 Whipple Road, Bldg. F
Union City, Ca 94587
United States
"...this Statement of Limited Warranty apply only to Machines you purchase for your use, and not for resale, from an authorized Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Distributor..."
If I purchase it from Creative Labs as part of their "machine" and not a Hitachi authorized distributor I would read the warenty statment to exclude any warenty from Hitachi . Just the way I read it. but for 1/2 the price you could afford to have one fail and still break even.
Yup, today I ordered one from buy.com for $199. They are not in stock now but I can wait. 1GB is definitely not enough to shoot RAW for action photography.
The only problem with the $199 backordered players is that I am not sure if the microdrive inside is soldered. So far all the people who received the players earlier have no problem. Not sure about the next production though.
I've taken a chance and just ordered the mp3 4gig player from Creative in the hopes that it will work in my 10D. Has anyone received theirs bought @ $199 and can confirm that the drive inside is not the soldered type but the removable one??
Also, anyone have the link to the step by step process and pictures the original poster put up? Is the page still up?
ebourlet wrote:
"...this Statement of Limited Warranty apply only to Machines you purchase for your use, and not for resale, from an authorized Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Distributor..."
If I purchase it from Creative Labs as part of their "machine" and not a Hitachi authorized distributor I would read the warenty statment to exclude any warenty from Hitachi . Just the way I read it. but for 1/2 the price you could afford to have one fail and still break even.
I also read it that way, it doesn't make sense for hitachi to provide warranty to end users for a device that was integrated into a product. The producer of the product would be responsible. ie: You buy a laptop from dell that includes a seagate hard drive, and the hard drive breaks. You don't call seagate to get it replaced, you call dell.
Also, it would be very easy to confirm if theres a warranty for those micro drives that you have 4sevens, just call up hitachi, give them the serial number of the drive and ask for warranty status.
FWIW, I believe that taking out these drives and selling them on ebay for profit as "NEW" is rather misleading.
or resell on Ebay ?!