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Back-to-School Giveaway: FreeAgent Go External Hard Drive

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FreeAgent Go Portable Hard Drive

Tune in all week for hot Back-To-School Giveaways. We’ve got some great prizes for the kids, with a couple of special prizes to pamper mom!!! Look for a new 48-hour giveaway each morning and each afternoon, and be sure to check out all of the current giveaways for other great prizes!

In today’s technology-driven world, the importance of backing up data can’t be understated. Whether you keep important documents or priceless photos on your hard drive, you run the risk of losing it all without proper backups.

The Seagate FreeAgent Go portable hard drive is a great solution for securing your data, especially if your family has more than one computer.

The FreeAgent Go will makes it easy to backup your entire computer and then some. Seagate sent me one of these little contraptions to try out for myself, and seriously, it’s so simple that even my 5 year old could set it up. I just plugged it into the USB port, and the installation process started up automatically.

Features that I love (besides the cool red and chrome colors):

  • Automated scheduled backups – one less thing I have to remember is always fine by me!
  • Syncs folders between computers – I often switch between my laptop and netbook, so this will be a huge timesaver.
  • Docking station – makes keeping it connected to your main computer easy, but it’s also easy to hook up to another computer!
  • Password protection of the drive – no worries about curious little people erasing my backed up files!

With 500GB of memory, this external hard drive should have plenty of space to backup my photos, documents, and iTunes music collection safely for many years to come.

One lucky Deal Seeking Mom reader will win a FreeAgent Go 500GB portable hard drive!

To enter, tell me what information you need to backup on your computer. Do you have hundreds of pictures of your kids? Important financial documents? Business records?

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Every reader has four methods available to enter this contest. Choose one each of any combination of method one, two, three, or four for up to a total of 4 entries!!!

Methods of entry:

1. Leave a comment. Do you currently backup the data on your computer? Do you have pictures or documents that you would be devestated to lose?

2. Add Deal Seeking Mom to your blogroll or add my badge to your sidebar. Make sure to come back and leave the link to your site in a separate comment!

3. Join the new Deal Seeking Mom Forums to chat about your great finds, special coupon codes, and chances to win exclusive giveaways. Leave a separate comment letting me know you’ve joined or that you’re already a registered user!

4. Subscribe to my feed via RSS or email. You must confirm your email subscription for it to be a valid entry! Leave a separate comment letting me know you have done so. If you’re already a subscriber, simply leave a separate comment letting me know you’re already subscribed. Lovin’ my subscribers! You guys make this all possible.

Prize:
(1) Seagate FreeAgent Go 500GB portable hard drive

This giveaway ends at 11:59pm EST on Friday, 11/21. I’ll use Random.org to select the winning comment. Winner will be notified by email on and listed on my Giveaway Winners page. Good luck!

While you’re in a contest entering mood, don’t forget to check out the Giveaway Gathering for a variety of contests being hosted on Deal Seeking Mom readers’ blogs!

Reader Interactions

Comments

  7. Anneka

    I am a photographer and always always need a way to back up all my photo files. It’s not if you lose your files, it’s when! And bloggers above all folks should know how important it is to be able to add fun images to all your posts :)

  9. sally

    Yes, I back up on an external hard drive. And until I used up all the memory on my laptop, I had another copy there…but I ran out of memory. I’m SO paranoid about losing photos and music and everything else.

    What a great giveaway! Thanks!

  11. Linda B

    Had a virus attack yesterday. I was able to head off any real damage but realized I could have lost everything especially my grandkids pictures. Could really use this. Thanks for the chance!

  12. christen

    I currently on my laptop have thousands of family pictures of my 2 daughters and hundreds of pictures of my husbands work. We are self employed so I have all of his invoices and proposals saved to my lap top. I try to save it all to thumb drives so I have atleast 10 thumb drives to keep up with.

  13. Ruth Ann

    I’ve got lots of pictures and presentations that I’ve put together that include the pictures, funny captions, etc…kinda like electronic scrapbook pages.
    Thanks for the chance to win!

  15. Carissa

    We’ve lost irreplaceable pictures when our computers have fried. We do as much backup as possible (mostly online) but it’s never enough. An extra hard drive would be extremely helpful.

  19. Patty D.

    Oh my goodness, I am looking to buy one of these right now. Winning on would be way better though!

  22. Kylene

    I just registered for the forums… I’m excited to learn about more ways to save money and get great deals there!

  25. JOAN

    we had a laptop with a ton of pics and the the hard drive crashed we lost everything it was heartbreaking try to explain that to a kid LOL it was sad we so not talk about it anymore.

  26. Penny

    We don’t back up our computer data. I’m sure we have tons of things on our computer that we would hate to lose.

  27. Amy S

    i have SOOOO many pictures that could use backing up!

    would love to win!

    thanks for sponsoring this.

    2kidsblogger(at)gmail(dot)com

  30. Fran

    I don’t back up computer but really should. I take tons of digital photos of my kids and have thousands on the computer that I have not done anything with yet. Would kill me to lose it all. I could really use this!