BC Giveaway: Win one of 10 1TB + 500GB Seagate Free Agent Drive Bundles! Options

[Grinler]

Thanks to Notebooks.com, we are part of a contest where we will be giving away not one, but two Seagate external hard drives to one lucky winner. The winner of this contest will get their choice of either a FreeAgent Desk 1TB or FreeAgent Desk for Mac 1TB. That same winner will also get to choose either a 500GB FreeAgent Go or 500GB FreeAgent Go for Mac. Regardless of whether you are Mac or PC, if you win, you will have two great devices that can be used to backup your data.

External drives are not typically fun to look at, but with the PC version of the Seagate FreeAgent Go you now have 10 different colors to choose from that will help you accessorize your laptop or computing space. The FreeAgent Go for Mac has a sleek and thin look that has been designed to be a perfect fit for your Mac. Below you can see a display of the colors available for the PC version of the Seagate FreeAgent Go.

Entering the contest is simple. Just respond to this topic with the answer to the following questions and I will pick a random winner from those who left a response before 11:59 PM PST on December 6. The questions are:

What is your current backup plan for your computer? What would be the most devastating loss of data (ie. pictures, email, music, etc) for you, if your hard drive failed or the data was deleted? How would this prize package help you?

For further chances to win this contest, please visit the other nine sites participating in the contest. Regardless of whether you plan on entering their contests, they are all excellent sites and are worth the visit.

• CrunchGear
• Bleeping Computer
• Notebooks.com
• GeeksToGo.com
• PlanetAMD64.com
• Gadgetell.com
• Paulstamatiou.com/
• Macenstein.com
• Digital Home Thoughts

Good luck and happy holidays!

[Sharonsthere]

Oy. My backup plan is to hope that if the hdd fails, someone else knows how to retrieve information off of it. That sounds pretty bad, now that I write it out. It's on my mind often, but being in college means I operate pretty close to the edge. The worse thing about it, is that I have my pictures of my kids there, kind of scattered around. ( And the oldest is not with us anymore!) So, even if I don't win, I can see I need to take this seriously. I'll take this as a warning, thanks!

[Bio Hazard]

1. What is your current backup plan for your computer ?

Answer :- I have a Seagate 40GB portable external HDD (ST940801U2-RK).I know it's too small for backing up my main HDD's data on it.So, i'm currently writing/backing up the data of my HDDs on blank DVD-Rs & the rest on this porable drive.

2. What would be the most devastating loss of data (ie. pictures, email, music, etc) for you, if your hard drive failed or the data was deleted ?

Answer :- It would be my emails & many text files which i'm keeping with me for years now.

3. How would this prize package help you ?

Answer :- This package would help me very nicely because i don't have a spacious external drive where i can back-up my data on.My 40 GB falls very short when i feel the need to back up 300+ GBs of data which resides on my desktop drives.If i would have got this package, i wouldn't have to buy several DVD-Rs to back-up the rest of the data.I also wouldn't have to search for any specific file from those huge piles of DVDs when it's needed.

This post has been edited by Bio Hazard: Nov 27 2008, 08:30 AM

[xblindx]

My current backup plan is non existant at the moment . The most devastating loss would be my parents business records. They own their own business and have spreadsheets and documents that can't be lost. Most of the documents they have a hard copy of too, but soMe are only on he computer. The hard drives would help my parents ( it would be their Christmas present) because I could help them back up all of their importAnt files as well as my and my brothers music ( a very large amount) my brother is also going to college nextyear so using the hard drvie to transferfiles to his laptop would be another use.


Good luck to all entrants and happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!

[Bombasos2]

1. My current backup plan is not too bad for my desktop. I have a backup of most the files I use but not a complete back up or image as I would like. My laptop does not currently have any backup solution since am out of hard drive space.

2. The most devastating loss would be pictures. My wife and I have taken many pictures over the last couple of years and if the laptop crashes...well.. ..I need to back it up.

3. The prize would allow me to create full images of both my PCs and save the day when one of the computers crash.

Good luck to all!

[BarrieB]

1. What is your current backup plan for your computer ?

Answer :- Ihave a WD 1tb drive which I use to do a full back up of both my desktop and laptop systems which also share some important files between them. I backup at least once per month or more often if I have downloaded/amended significant amounts of data.


2. What would be the most devastating loss of data (ie. pictures, email, music, etc) for you, if your hard drive failed or the data was deleted ?

Answer :- In priority, my financial control system (Money etc) plus some home made movie files.

3. How would this prize package help you ?

Answer :- I could get greater resilience by cycling disks. This would not only give greater hardware reassurance but also prevent virus creep and enable more frequent back-ups

[JohnWho]

What is your current backup plan for your computer?

I back up weekly to an external HD using Acronis True Image and backup MS Money every time I use it.


What would be the most devastating loss of data (ie. pictures, email, music, etc) for you, if your hard drive failed or the data was deleted?

The MS Money data would most likely be impossible to reconstruct back over 15 years and my address book would both be very difficult to reconstruct. The music is replaceable, as are some of the photos.


How would this prize package help you?

Rather than backup repeatedly to one external HD, I would have additional HD's to use as backups.

[bk94caddy]

Q1-What is your current backup plan for your computer?

A1-Really, nothing. I will backup any pictures or music to a dvd every once in a while, but that's it.



Q2-What would be the most devastating loss of data (ie. pictures, email, music, etc) for you, if your hard drive failed or the data was deleted?

A2-Right now, it would be my wedding pictures. All photos from my wedding are on computer, and haven't got to back them up yet.



Q3-How would this prize package help you?

A2-I would have plenty of space to back up any and all photos that i take, and can get more music. Also, it would make it a lot easier to share photos with my family.

[regac]

What is your current backup plan for your computer?

Current plan is a scheduled task that runs on Fridays that formats and external 20GB harddrive that I removed from an old
laptop and then copies my select parts of my school folder to that. [I am a design student, lots of vector graphics.]



What would be the most devastating loss of data (ie. pictures, email, music, etc) for you, if your hard drive failed or the data was deleted?

Most devastating would be loss of some of my best works that I spent a lot of time on and that am quite proud of. ^^



How would this prize package help you?

Wooww, 1TB, I could not only properly backup my school stuff but could actually watch a few movies.

Cheers

[snemelk]

What is your current backup plan for your computer?

Using Backup feature included in Windows Vista... New backup once a month... Files are copied to the local hard drive (around 110GB)...

What would be the most devastating loss of data (ie. pictures, email, music, etc) for you, if your hard drive failed or the data was deleted?

Documents related to work and studies...

How would this prize package help you?

I haven't ever used external drives for a backup... I guess it's more secure... So I would probably make backup copies more often and would feel more secure... ..

[mas_pogi]

Q: What is your current backup plan for your computer?

I usually backup my file to my 120gb and 80gb portable hard drives. I usually copy every important document and save it there.

Leaving my laptop an ample amount 110gb of free space.

Q: What would be the most devastating loss of data (ie. pictures, email, music, etc) for you, if your hard drive failed or the data was deleted?

My research papers, pictures and my linux Vbox images.

Q: How would this prize package help you?

Well, I can save a lot of things in there. It is also easier to carry one harddrive than bringing two.

Mark

[Jat90]

Thanks to BC for organising this giveaway

I may as well have a go

What is your current backup plan for your computer?

There's not much important stuff to back up as I have all the disks for my software. The things I do backup include pictures, work. The way I do this is by using first a USB stick and I also back up to disc (CD-R)

What would be the most devastating loss of data (ie. pictures, email, music, etc) for you, if your hard drive failed or the data was deleted?

I would have to say pictures. As photo taking has moved from hard copy to digital storage, most of our family photos are now on my pc. If I were to lose this permanently (no backups) then it would mean a loss of valuable memories. Ok, memories can be generated by your mind but pictures do spark memories better.

How would this prize package help you?

An external hard drive would significantly help me mainly due to backup storage. Its much safer to have your images and work on 2 hard drives rather than the one. Another reason would be for a general hard drive space increase. I only have 40GB on this laptop, an external hard drive would therefore prove very useful.

[XxGam3rFr3akxX]

What is the backup plan for your computer?

I have overall (In my Desktop PC) 2 S-ATA (Serial ATA) drives. One is my main Windows Drive (500GB) my Second drive is a small (20GB) backup drive. that backs up data every 5 mins. I find this useful, as i can get the data, when i need it.

What would be the most devastating loss of data (ie. pictures, email, music, etc) for you, if your hard drive failed or the data was deleted?

I had a HD failure about 6 Months ago on my Desktop, and i couldn't get my School work, Apps, and Personal Info, having re-installing Windows i'd lost everything. But, i never had my backup drive until about 2 Weeks later.

How would this prize package help you?

This would help me have a better drive so i can back more stuff up. My 20GB is currently at 19.4GBs and is nearly full, so if i did have a HD failure, i wouldn't be able to get ALL of my data back, and most is for school and info (Such as Logins, Personal Info etc.) so having a bigger drive, would help me a "lot of a bunch" More.


Big thanks to Grinler for posting the topic and BleepingComputer for having this contest!!

This post has been edited by XxGam3rFr3akxX: Nov 27 2008, 12:14 PM

[xXAlphaXx]

1. What is your current backup plan for your computer?
I have 3 Drives in RAID 5
2.What would be the most devastating loss of data (ie. pictures, email, music, etc) for you, if your hard drive failed or the data was deleted?
Hmm, I would have to say all my school work, saved games, custom made programs... Erm... Registry? Oh! And my site is hosted off my compy.
3.How would this prize package help you?
You never can have too much backup, I would back up my important files.

This post has been edited by xXAlphaXx: Nov 27 2008, 12:17 PM

[vonbert]

I have a small external drive that I use now. I would probably give the other drives to my daughter so that she can have a back up plan at college. I think the worst thing to lose is our picture files, because it has already happened to us once. That was depressing!

[Uluru_2]

What is your current backup plan for your computer?
At present I just use Erunt whenever changing settings or installing a program which I may want to remove if it doesn't do what I hoped it would , and save my System settings with a backup program I picked up for free from somewhere . I'd like to do my system settings weekly but always seems to be fortnightly or longer . Any media , Video , Music , Audio I try to get onto a CD-RW or ROM , I haven't graduated to a DVD burner as yet . Also tempory storage on USB flash drives .
What would be the most devastating loss of data (ie. pictures, email, music, etc) for you, if your hard drive failed or the data was deleted?
Honestly I think my notes that I take constantly about Computer maintenance and Fixes which go back over six years or more . Irreplaceable information for a Technician and Malware fighter . Plus Bookmarks . All Bookmarks and regularly used notes I keep in the 'Cloud' .
How would this prize package help you?
I could get a good nights sleep and stop having heart palpitations