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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?

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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

  1. Paulette

    I am unable to back up my pictures and information due to money constraints. This would be a greatly appreciated addition to my household.

  4. Lindsay

    would love to have this as I just got a new camera and ipod so need something to back up all the goodies!!!

  6. Tessy

    I am a scrapbooker so not only do I have tons of pictures but I also have tons of digital kits that take up a lot of room on my hard drive. Would love this hard drive!

  10. beverly

    I do not back up my files, though I know I should. I try to copy my pictures onto a disk every few months but if something happened to my HD I would lose so much that I could never get back.

  14. Akimbo

    We always backup our computers, but our current drives are almost full and we need more room for baby pictures! Thanks!

  15. Mary

    I have hundreds of beautiful photos of our family. We also save reports, financial info, talks, etc. on our un-backed up computer!

  18. TRUEjoe4U

    I need this type of backup for my 3 years-old PC. It’s the only valuable thing I own, besides my home, and I would feel helpless if I could not restore all my accumulated info/pics/music/videos/etc,etc !!! TIA.

  19. Marcie

    We have too much saved on our home computer. I cringe at what would happen if we lost it. For nostalgic and practical items, it would be a blessing to have this prize!

  20. Deb

    I have so many photos of my kids. I’ve had a crash before and lost all of them that weren’t uploaded to shutterfly :) This would be so helpful, especially since I’m not a very technical person!

  21. Deni

    I backup using flash drives which I keep in a fireproof box. I always feel that it would be easy to lose one though and I have wanted to purchase another hard drive. Winning one would be sweet!

  26. Jen

    I do not currenlty backup and my husband scolds me for it – I am sure I am days away from losing it all. help!

  28. arcanabtn

    I use a photo site to backup my photos, but it’s going to be expensive it I have to get them all back. Plus I’ve just started digital scrapbooking and this will be a great way to transfer them to my laptop with out taking up memory!

    Thanks for the contest!