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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. Marlene

    I am actually looking for an external hard drive right now. My computer was just infected with a virus and it took us 3 weeks to get it back to normal again. We almost lost everything. We do not have anything to back it up now b/c the hard drives I priced are not in our budget. I need to back up pictures, music and financial records. Thanks!

  3. Leah

    We desperately have been needing to buy one! There are way too many precious photos just sitting on the computer.

  6. stacy

    We back up our pictures to external drives and then place them in a fireproof safe to insure we won’t lose them. You just never know what could happen to data left on a computer!

  7. Amber

    We’ve been looking for an external drive to backup the thousands of digital pics we have taken of our girls. I’d like to keep it in a fire safe just in case!

  8. Kristie

    I have a ton of stuff to backup on my computer! I have pictures of my family, our household budget spreadsheets and records, and everything for my blog. I have all of the posts I’m working on saved to my hard drive, and I’d be so sad if I lost them! And my music! My iPod got erased on accident once and we didn’t have any of the music on our computer because we used to delete it once it had been transferred over to save space. I had to start building my music library all over… I would love to win this!

  11. Amanda

    I have a TON of pictures to back up! I also keep a lot of projects and documents would grad school… definitely can’t lose those! Love your site! Thanks! =)

  16. Jen C

    I could use another hard drive. I have quite a few photos and my husband recently ripped ALL of our CDs. I’m paranoid about losing info on my laptop due to age and fickleness.

  17. Kelly L

    Oh my gosh! I worry about losing all my pictures and videos of my son that I have stored on my one pc. This would be a great item to back up all those precious memories. Thanks for such a great web site! Kelly

  20. Christine

    As an IT consultant, I should know better, but my ‘back-up’ consists of uploading photos to my google account and that’s about it. I could use some help!

  30. Micheline

    We don’t have any back-up right now. This would be great to have! Thanks for the opportunity to save all our pictures in a safe way.