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

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FreeAgent Go Portable Hard Drive

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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?

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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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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!

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Reader Interactions

Comments

  2. Dannelle

    I currently save my pictures on CDs which sucks because they are not all in one place. I also have to go through many CDs in order to get the picture I want. So, I would absolutely love an External Hard Drive. I would also be devastated if something ever happened and I lost my pictures.

  3. Sarah Joy

    I do back things up on an external memory thingy – but this little portable one looks great.

  4. Rebecca

    This wold be such a relief to have. I swap houses every 6 months to live in the UK and I’m always afraid something will happen to my laptop in transit and I’ll loose photos and important documents.

    I’d love to win this!

  10. Andrea

    Ive had my computer crash on me before but thank goodness my files were saved! I would hate to lose all my pictures!

  15. noochymama

    i would LOVE to win this b/c i have tons of photos of my kids that i need to back up. i would be devestated to lose them.
    thanks for the giveaway! i also think the red color would be so pretty!

  25. Modern Day Mom

    I backup my pictures, documents, and music all the time… however, it’s more of a drag-and-drop method. Sometimes I forget to back things up, and then delete them thinking they’re backed up… it’s awful! Would be great to have an automated backup scheduler!

  28. Judy

    Need to back up my family photos dating back to the 1800’s. I have spent a lot of time scanning them.

  29. Kristen

    Tara- I have so many pics of my little ones that i have already lost some on 2 computers that crashed. I could really use a backup so i dont lose anymore memories!

  30. Melissa

    I would love to have an external back up…I lost a ton of my wedding pictures when my computer crashed a few months back. Now I have a six month old baby. I would be devistated to lose her pics!