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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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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. beth drummonds

    I would back up my pictures, ipod files and of course my homebased business customer files/records.
    Sounds like a great piece of technology!

  5. Elaine

    I would definitely back up all my pictures of my wedding, honeymoon, trips, etc. My personal finance records would also be a great thing to backup.

  7. Elizabeth

    Currently have an external hard drive I use to back up photos from my photography business. Could always use more space though!

  8. Jenni A

    I have precious photos, homeschooling records, ebooks, you name it. I have never backed up my info using an external hard drive. I think it is about time I learned how.

  9. liloh

    oh god i would love to win this one: i try to backup my laptop occasionally, but since switching to a mac the external i have is currently not compatible. definitely need a new one!

  13. MomE

    Oh boy did I learn the hard way about backing up my files when my computer crashed a few weeks ago. I couldn’t even get windows to load. I panicked for days as I researched solutions. I had pics and vidoes of my daughter that I hadn’t backed up. I was darn near in tears and didn’t sleep well for about a week. I was able to get windows to load with a quick fix and found my data still there! Woo!

    So what do I have to backup, pictures and videos of my daughter. And anything that makes that easier would be great. I don’t want to live through this again!

  15. Missy S

    I have tons of photos on my computer and I’m just hoping it never crashes because I don’t have them backed up!

  18. heatherg

    I have a ton of pictures, and so many movies from my camera on my computer that it now runs super-slow. I’ve never backed up anything before, so if something happens to my computer, bye bye baby pics!

  19. Heather

    We desperately need to back up our computer so that I don’t lose all the pictures of my precious children.

  20. Vesta

    I currently have tons of pictures for scrapbooking and papers for college on the computer I share with my husband! I desperately need to free up some space for him :)

  21. Courtney

    I’ve been wanting to get an external hard drive so I can back up all of my pictures. If my computer were to crash, I would be devastated. Too many memories would be lost. Thanks for a great giveaway!

  23. Jennifer B

    I have a ton of images of my kids and several videos that I would hate to lose. This is one of those items that I keep meaning to purchase but never seem to get to…..

  26. Amanda

    PICTURES!! TONS AND TONS OF PICTURES!~ oh, and a little bit of business information, tax records…

  30. nicole hughes

    we could really use an external hard drive. it would be so awful to loose all of my pictures.