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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?
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!
Pietra
I absolutely would love to win this! I’ve been wanting to purchase a portable hard drive to back up my old photos and some old documents. I have old photos that I scanned out of a family member’s photo album that I borrowed, of my grandparents when they were young, as well as tons of pics of my kids as they are growing up.
Pietra
I’m already a subscriber.
Emily
OMG this is great! I did not know that external hard drives come with backup software! I thought I would have to shell out an extra $50 for software on top of the hard drive, which made it out of my price range. My last laptop was stolen, and I really wished I would have backed up my data back then!!
Tonya
I had 100’s of photos on my old computer.I thought I had everything backed up on one of those online backup places.Perfect safe place,right?NOT!I (still)can not figure out how to get that old info from the online site to my new computer,because(like you did not see this coming a mile away,lol)my old computer died.I think an extra hard drive would work better for me:)
Tonya
I subscribe via Google Reader as blssdmmm1.The email above is contest only:)
Katherine D.
We have a bunch of pictures that I would hate to lose (one of my friends just had that happen to her pictures of her two little boys when her hard drive crashed), and I know there will be plenty more when I have my baby in a few weeks.
Tonya
I registered at Deal Seeking Mom Forums.I am blssdmmm1.Again above email is contest only.
Janet
I have a bunch of pictures of my older kids and am adding tons more now that i’ve had another baby.
Mama bear
I have lots of pics and important documents that I cannot lose. I have lost some in the past and it was terrible.
Mama bear
I’m a subscriber.
Mama bear
I’m a forum member. =)
Wren
Our computer serves four different individuals and each would benefit from a back up system. My husband could use it for work related tasks, my soon to be high school daughter will sleep better at night knowing that her work from classes is more”protected”, and my college daughter would love it. And me? I am trying to get more technologically savvy. This would be a great way to expand my skills and tasks that I do on the computer:)
James
I have all my pictures on my pc and desperately need a device like this to back them up and keep them safe.
Kelly Philpott
I added a link to your blog….Thanks.
erin
oh i totally need this…. NEED NEED NEED. i graduated about 3 years ago and still have every school paper, etc (which i am going to need for grad school) on my comp! plus i have all the pictures i have ever taken sicne 2000 on my comp. i swear my computer is going to break soon! please pick me!!
Katherine P
I do not back up very often as I’m not great on computers but if I ever lost my pics of my kids, I would be devestated!
Lynne S
oh boy….this would sure help me…..I lost over 200 pictures of our Grand Canyon /Carlsbad Cavern vacation this summer.
It was devastating! This could have prevented it for sure!
Kelly Philpott
I have two young boys that we take hundreds of pictures of…we have never had professional pics because we take so many. I have all these pictures on our computer of our family plus pictures of my deceased father that I hope, one day, to share with my boys so that they will know their grandfather. Currently, our computer is bogged down with too much stuff and is not working properly. I would be absolutely devastated to lose these only pictures of my father and the pictures of our boys. I COULD REALLY USE THIS DEVICE SO THAT I CAN SAVE ALL OUR PRICELESS PICTURES! PICK ME PLEASE!
Sherri Kramer
I’ll take one please!
Kelly Philpott
I NEED EVER ENTRY POSSIBLE…I just joined your email subscription!
patti
My husband is a school teacher and could greatly use this for transferring files back and forth. Thanks for all your great posts. :)
sher
would love to back up our photos!
patti
I am currently and subscriber to your reader. Thanks again.
Pri
would love to back up our data
Alesia
Like most others, I have tons of pictures on my harddrive as well as all of our financial records. In have know that we need an EHD, but have neglected to do anything about it. (I know, shame on me.) Needless to say, I would love to win this giveaway.
San
I would love to have one!
Mellisa W.
We do now. Of course it took a tragedy, but we learned.
Mellisa W.
I subscribe.
Stephanie
I try to remember to backup but I’m worried about what I would lose right now.
Katie Woodrow
We back up pictures (all the pictures from both my girls since they were born that very very few of have been printed – whoops!), financial stuff, plus the oodles and caboodles of music files that my husband has. We would be devastated to lose anything!