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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

  2. Joni

    I think my husband backs everything up every once and a while. I would be devastated to lose all the pictures I have stored!!

  4. jessica

    I came up with the idea of putting all our photos and music on an external hard drive years ago but it never came to fruition — there’s always something more pressing to spend money on! This would be just the jump start we need!

  9. Julie

    One time we lost all of our pictures because we didn’t back up. I hate that we’re missing those!

  11. Lina

    Wow this is an amazing prize!!! I would find so much use of this I’m in my senior year so I get enough work as it is. I’m trying to better myself by taking honor and advanced placement classes, which gives us TONS!!! of digital work so I need to store them somewhere. Also offcourse I am a teenager and I love!!! taking pictures with my friends and it would mean the world for me to get this.
    I am also an e-mail subscriber
    I’m in the forums
    I’m following you on Twitter
    and I left a comment :)

  14. James Wilson

    Since we live in an RV full time, we save as much space as possible by scanning everything and saving it electronically. Backing this up is essential. In addition to all of our pictures and music, we have electronic copies of medical records, pet medical records, etc. I’d love to have this hard drive to be able to have an on site backup available.

  15. Misty

    This would be invaluable to back up my pictures. I have so many on my computer and would really be sad to lose them. I occasionally burn them onto CDs/DVDs, but this would be so much easier!

  16. Vanessa

    I need to backup everything. Don’t have that right now. I would love to backup my pictures of my Dad who is no longer with us. And IF I win the camcorder and I can download video off the SD card, lol!

  17. Jessica M

    I would love this! I would back up pics of my kids. I have been bad about storing them without backing them up and a few months ago when our computer crashed, we lost so many precious memories!

  21. Melissa

    I do not currently have anything backed up, so I would seriously DIE if I lost everything! LOL I’d love to win this! Been meaning to get one anyway!

  27. Es

    I am so silly– I do NOT backup my work. Which is ridiculous considering I am a writer as well as a blogger! This would be perfect for me, and very necessary! Plus all my pictures I have… if I ever lost the ones of my cat as a kitten I’d be devastated!!!