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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?

2. Add Deal Seeking Mom to your blogroll or add my badge to your sidebar. Make sure to come back and leave the link to your site in a separate comment!

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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

  1. Jillian

    I really need to back up all of my pictures of my 4 month old baby girl. (We already have 300+) Also I have all of my teaching tools on my computer, I am a special ed teacher, so I make all my own worksheets and tests. If don’t win, I will need to buy one of these in September.

  3. deanna

    I’ve seriously been thinking about how bad we need a backup. I have soo many pictures of my son that I would be absolutely devastated to lose.

  4. Jena

    We need one of these sooo bad. Its just one of those Items that you should always have for that just in case moment, so you do not loose everything!

  17. C L

    I need this! I have ALL my photos on my computer and my cd drive won’t work so I can’t download them to cd’s! My computer is broken and I am scared I am going to lose everything!
    I hope I win!!!
    If I don’t do you have any suggestions for one that is inexpensive?
    Thanks!

  18. robin

    OMG this would make the perfect xmas gift for my boyfriend who is a computer geek.. he has almost 100,000 ( yes thats one hundred thousand ) songs on several different hard drives and this would let him put them all on one hard drive so i wouldnt have computer stuff( ok less computer stuff) sitting around everywhere… keep up the awesome job you do on your site it is great… robin

  20. Christy Large

    My husband is always telling me that we need to get an extra storage unit for our computer because I am addicted to take pictures of my baby girl and have taken up most of the memory. It would be nice to have somewhere else to store them. :)

  22. PisecoMom

    Oh! I’d love this. I have one smallish drive I use for my best pictures. But we also homeschool, and I can’t ~not~ save all the worksheets and projects and things! I’d love to have a drive just for that. Thanks!

  24. Pamela Levis

    I have not backed up in a long time. Hubby is on my case to do it. I really need to because I have so many photos I would be devastated to lose…They would have to commit me

  28. Andrea

    My husband, who always says “back up, back up!!” doesn’t practice what he preaches and one day, his computer crashed and he lost everything! So, besides the hundreds of photos, we have all sorts of files and important information that desperately needs backing up!