Deal Seeking Mom

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

by

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?

+++++++++++++++

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

  3. Michele

    I have photos of my nephews from birth up on my computer that I’d hate to lose, along with photos from years of vacations.

  6. Sascha

    I have not backed up anything in too long! And I should be one to know better, our hard drive crashed a few years ago and we thought everything was lost, most upsetting was the pictures that were on the hard drive. We shelled out $400 to have the hard drive picked apart and everything saved, that time we were fortunate to have the $400 … next time we won’t be so lucky!

  7. Tori

    After losing the last 5 years if photos when our hard drive failed, I have learned my lesson about backing up files! Nothing was recoverable, but if I had an external hard drive, it would be a different story! I’d use this drive to make sure I lose no more precious photos of my baby boy that just can’t be replaced.

  10. Jennifer Jones

    I keep all my pictures of my friends and family on my computer and this back up would be really nice.

  13. Marie R

    Sorry to say but we don’t have a back up system. I would be very upset if we lost our pictures.

  14. Isabel

    I currently don’t backup the data on my computer and i have around 3000+ pictures and documents , i am not worry abut the document but the pictures!!!!!! I would love to get the external hard drive wich i hear also help the computer to work faster.

  15. Missy

    This would be great to back up all my pictures and my schoolwork – I am a working mom with two little ones + grad school!

  16. Michelle

    I would be extremely sad if I lost the photos on my computer, I have been needed to back them up/organize them for 3 years. I just have not found a good system yet. A hard drive would give me some peace of mind

  17. Melanie @ Mel, A Dramatic Mommy

    I just got my first laptop! I’ve looked at this drive before and it seems like the perfect thing for me. I’d love to take all the info off my desktop (music, pictures etc.) and put them on this drive rather than my laptop’s hard drive. Thanks!

  18. ca longhorn

    we try to back up the thousands of photos we have on our computer and have resorted to putting them on disk because there are so many! would love another hard drive to put them on just in case the disks end up doing something funky one day!

  22. Michelle

    We were just talking about the need for an external hard drive. I would go nuts if I lost all of my picture files.

  23. Stephanie B

    Four years ago next week I lost almost every picture I ever had of my 3 children when Hurricane Katrina wiped out our home. I would love to have all of my photos (of course they’re mostly digital now) backed up forever. I would be so greatful if I were to win this prize :0)

  24. Stephanie B

    I have been a subscriber to your RSS feed since I first started reading a couple of months ago :0)

  26. Amanda

    I really really need this to back up my computer! It’s getting full and I dont want to loose my pictures!

  29. Carolyn

    Oh! I would love to win this. My current computer is about to die and while we are in the market for another one, it would be great if I could get these pictures backed up before this one explodes!