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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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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

  2. Nikke

    I would love to be able to back up my music and photos. I go to school away and have plenty of family pictures since I don’t see my family often and lots of music and papers that I have to write. It would be great to get it all of my computer and onto a portable hard drive. It would sure make using my computer that much easier without being bogged down. My computer has already crashed once and I was lucky that the pictures we able to be saved. It would be great to not have this worry but on a college students budget buying one is not a possibility. It would be great to win one!

  4. Erin

    I refuse to delete pictures off of my memory cards after I download them to the computer. I like to have things in 2 places, but now my memory cards are full! This would be a great problem solver!

  5. Chelsea Seal

    This would be great to win! I backup pics on CD and with a flashdrive. 2 years ago I lost about 6 months worth of pics when our computer totally died! It was really sad.

  6. Sarah

    Unfortunaly I don’t backup anything and I really need to. I would love to win this. I have 3 businesses with letters, receipts, and important information. I have pictures and I also do a monthly town news letter. I really do need to back the files up. I would be in deep if I lost all of that.

  7. Denise

    After having lost some pictures and documents, I now try to back up once a month but haven’t been too successful.

  14. Theresa C

    It’s sad to say I do not back up my documents and I just got a new computer and gave the old one to my teenage son and be keeps bugging me to get my stuff off the computer as he does not want to know about PTA stuff and things like that.

  16. Dawn Snodgrass

    I was really out of practice backing up my pictures. Then….my laptop crashed. I cried for an hour thinking I had lost all of my nephew’s senior year of State Championship football pictures, and almost a years worth of pics of my almost 2 year old! argh! We were able to recover them, but it cost us! Now I back up pictures almost immediately to discs. A harddrive would be great!

  17. Ann

    I could really use this hard drive. I resyore old pictures an have run across 3 albums of OLD family photos. I’m working on our family tree and these pictures are a gold mine. However they belong to someone else and I’ve had to scan them and give the albums back. I’d love to have this drive to store all these photos and my family tree info.

    Thanks
    Ann

  18. Buffie

    I have a ton of pictures of my daughter (and other things) that I never seem to remember to backup. Then there are all my music files and the financial files. If I lost my data it would be a nightmare. Ugh! I think I need to go home tonight and do a backup.

  20. Mrs.Toro

    I am not only a parent of 2 girls but I’m also a full time college student so I have tons of pictures of my kiddos and tons of school work I need to backup!

  21. Jessica

    I have many pics of son to back up and lots college course work and job hunting documents as well

  24. Deborah

    I have pictures of our kids on the computer. I take them off the camera and put them on the computer. I would hate to loose my pictures!

  29. Sarah G

    I have tons of pictures and videos on my computer that need to be backed up. I’d love to get this external hard drive!