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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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Comments

  11. Suzanne JC

    Yes we learned our lesson and backup our photos now. Last year we had a virus that devastated our system and had to get a new computer and a lot of pictures were lost! Never again! I hope I can win this harddrive!

  19. Rachel

    I currently am backing up my new computer. I wasn’t on my old computer and lost lots of pictures and music.

  20. Shannon

    I know first hand the importance of back up, I lost all my pictures when my computer crashed a couple of years ago. So one has to wonder why I don’t have a back up device now. Seeking the ultimate deal I guess!

  22. Amy

    I love taking photos of my family, pets, and friends and have way to many stored on my computer. Would love to have antoher place to store photos.

  23. Nikki

    I would love to use the external hard drive to back up my pictures. I live so far away from my family and enjoy taking lots of pics when I see them.

  24. Wendy

    We lost all our photos from our daughter’s first 3 years from a computer crash 4 years ago. I’m awful at organization and disks get lost. This would provide the best way for me to keep photos in a central location.

  26. Betty C

    I sometimes back up things to disk but my hard drive is getting full of things that could easily be saved elsewhere. I would love to get an external hard drive that would hold so much more than a disk does.
    If my computer ever crashes I will be in a world of trouble.