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Back-to-School Giveaway: FreeAgent Go External Hard Drive

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FreeAgent Go Portable Hard Drive

Tune in all week for hot Back-To-School Giveaways. We’ve got some great prizes for the kids, with a couple of special prizes to pamper mom!!! Look for a new 48-hour giveaway each morning and each afternoon, and be sure to check out all of the current giveaways for other great prizes!

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

  4. Alma Bortle

    I currently save my pics to a main computer that I have, but is SO full that the virtual memory is gone so it make it difficult to browse.

  6. Hugo De La Rosa

    I would back up the tons of pictures my wife takes, as well as all of music and both of our documents. With my son in middle school now, he’s also racked up a few gigs worth of school projects we need to back up :)

  7. Heike B

    I really needed this, my computer crashed a few weeks ago and I lost so many pictures. Luckily I had some of them on flickr but there are still a lot that I lost along with documents. I put getting an external hard drive on my to-do-list so this won’t happen again

  10. Kathy

    I backup once a week whether I need to or not! :-) This would be great for any of my three kids in college. They never seem to have enough space or they are always losing something into the deep dark cyberworld.

  13. Mary Jo

    Ugh….I SHOULD back up once a week, considering I have about 15 gigs of pictures of my son on my laptop, but I don’t have an external hard drive!! I’d love to win this one!!!!

  17. Gloria

    I try and remember to back up our pictures every couple of months. I have so many CDs now that I’d love to have one dedicated place for a total backup!

  18. sara a.

    I currently back up my pictures to a small hard drive, but it’s almost full. I’d love to have a sleeker one with bigger storage.

  20. Heather

    I don’t back up data and it scares me! We have talked about it but never gotten around to it. We have thousands of pictures!

  21. Kia Moser

    I have known for a while that I need to back up but have been procrastinating. I have hundreds of photos of my daughter and family as well as important financial documents that would be devastating to lose.

    Thanks for the great giveaway.

  23. Nikki

    I don’t back up my computer now but I sure do need to. I have tons of pictures I put them on CD once or twice a year but I forget which ones I have on CD! I have phone directories and my address book that I want to back up along with tax info!

  25. Astad

    I would be seriously lost without my PC. Just my coupon info alone is worth way too many hours to lose!! While I do backup internally, I do not have an external hard drive…but I should!!

  27. Paula

    I don’t back up my computer right now…..I am currently saving to get an external hard drive, so I would be soooo grateful if I we to win this one!

  28. Jon

    First…I am an RSS subscriber for your blog and love it. you are also on the shortlist I follow on twitter using tweetdeck. I would love to be entered in the drawing for the backup drive. We have been old school, burning backups to CD’s, but we really need to take the plunge with a large backup drive so we can backup iTunes, 10+ years of digital pictures, and all our important document. Thanks for this chance!