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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

  7. Michele

    I have all my photos on my computer as well as the music I listen to, as well as my address book, can’t function without that.

  9. Rebekah

    Seriously needing a new external HD. Dropped my old one and killed it. *sigh* At least I’m a freak about backing stuff up so didn’t lose much other than our iTunes library.

  11. Jacki

    I currently backup everything to DVDs, and they are starting to get out of control! I have a ton of pictures, music, and school information I would be devistated to lose.

  14. Khoa N

    I have all these beautiful family photos on my computer that I would die if they got lost! Currently back up if not every day, ever other day. Learned the hard way that you can’t have too many backups.

  15. Gemma

    I am currently a gradute student at Nova Southeastern University. I had my laptop stolen last November with my thesis on it, and know how important it is to back everything up (unfortunantly not everything was backed up at the time and I lost alot of personal photos, and thesis material). I now have an 8-gig flash drive as my backup. Recently it has been corrupting my files, and so I have placed my thesis on both my laptop at home, and my office computer at work (I also work at the school). Word to the wise. BACK UP EVERYTHING. I recently made a folder with all my coverletters. My flash-drive turned my folder into a file and everything is lost. (BTW if any one knows how to fix this, that would be awesome. [email protected]).

  17. Rhonda Leeper

    I have serisously 1000 pictures on my computer of my three kids. My husband and I are crazy about taking pictures. I would love to have a way to back them up in case something ever happened to my computer.

  18. Josie

    I have tons of pictures on my laptop that I need to backup. I just don’t have any extra space! This would be perfect for backing things up. :)

  19. Brandy Miller

    My computer has crashed 3 times in the past 5 years. Each time God has provided and we were able to recover all the pictures, but my husband only backs up the pictures once a year on DVDs and puts them in the safe deposit box. I could really use an external harddrive to keep those pictures safe in the mean time…

  21. Dona

    I need to back up my photos, songs, bank acct info, and my college papers. I just returned to school to finish my degree so I really use this.