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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

  1. Nathalie

    I really could use this. Our desktop is dying and I need to back up pictures and videos. I’m backing them up but it takes forever, and there are pictures and videos from when my kids were babies and I am so afraid to lose them before I get them all burned!!

  7. Candace

    After my last computer died on me almost without warning, I now back up all of my documents every couple of weeks.

  8. Mary

    I back up my materials manually, but these are crucial materials and I’m constantly worried that I’ve forgotten something. I’m currently finishing my dissertation and three years of research and one and half years of writing occupy massive amounts of space on my hard drive and a rainbow jumble of jump disks. In addition to academic work, I’m planning my wedding, keeping financial records (personal and wedding), and preparing to merge finances with my future husband. I’d love this! It would make my life easier and calm my nerves about losing important information.

  10. Abbie

    I have so many pictures and sewing files to back up. As a matter of fact, I just recently lost a few hundred picks that hadn’t made it on cd because our computer crash. i would love this!!

  14. Angel

    I would be heartbroken if I lost my pictures. But worse, what if I lost all my couponing information!?!? What horror! Sign me up!

  15. Trista Teeter

    I would be sooooo devastated to lose all of our photos (not only am I a photographer, and have myself covered there, but I’ve scanned in every photo I could get my hands on of my and my husbands family all the way back to around 1980!).

  19. Teri Merkins

    I am a digital scrapbooker…so I have tons of photos and digital supplies that would love 500GB of room!

  20. mandy

    We just saw a house burn down not far from us. I just said how devastated I would be to lose pictures.

  26. Shannon

    I would be crushed if I lost more of my family photos. We lost about 2 years of pics when the hard drive crashed an few years ago. We now store them on two computers and on disk. This hard drive would be great. I never want that to happen again.

  28. Linnie

    I use Carbonite to back up my stuff. It is great, but I would love to add yet another method for safety!

  29. Ginger

    I would use this external drive to back up all my emails my husband and I sent back and forth before we were married. It’s a fun chronicle of our relationship… a treasure I hope to share with my daughter some day.