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

What is your current backup plan for your computer?
From Last one month, I am using Sea gate 500 GB external hard disk for back up,its vast in capacity.

What would be the most devastating loss of data ?
Personal Photo albums and English DVD movies


How would this prize package help you?
Current Hard Disk is 98% filled . Now I am planning to buy another one to back up remaining 100 GB of English Movies from my laptop .This offer will be helpful to me very much.

My current backup plan would be to whine and cry if anything bad happened because I have not learned about proper backup strategies.

If my hard drive failed or if everything was deleted, I would lose my way of life. Business, private files, photos...everything.

The prize package would help me by teaching me about having a backup plan.

What is your current backup plan for your computer?

I backup my computer as often as I can remember to my NAS. The problem with the NAS is that its no longer very portable, so I need to find a new solution that I can take with me when I am away.

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?

Pictures for sure. Everything else is irrelevant. I have the pictures from my wedding, the birth of my son (after, not during), his first steps, his first birthday, and many family times between. Those things are irreplaceable.

How would this prize package help you?

This prize would offer me the ability to take my backup solution with me or to an alternate location should a problem arise.

What is your current backup plan for your computer?
umm a 4g flash drive.


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? music pictures game saves haha pritty much all my internet and general settings.


How would this prize package help you?
well if my hd crashed (again) then it would help me save tons of time reinstalling everything.

What is your current backup plan for your computer?
-i dont have a external hard drive but i always back up all my important data on a dvd-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?
-that would be my pictures and software's..

How would this prize package help you?
-this would help me a lot, because i will never have to buy dvd-r from time to time to back up my files, and i can now save a lot of my favorite music and movies..

What is your current backup plan for your computer?
Well, that would be the occasional DVD burn of photos and videos for the past month or two or three. Definitely not the best strategy but It's all I've got right now.

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?
Definitely the loss of my digital photos and videos of family.

How would this prize package help you?
I would finally have a viable storage and backup solution to get things off of my main laptop drive, which fills up quickly, and have an immediately available repository of my photos so I don't have to search through DVDs.

OK, you're not going to believe this (hey, I'm a 54 year old), but I still back-up my computer the OLD FASHIONED way (on disc). It is both tedious and expensive, so I'd absolutely LOVE to win these 2 Seagate FreeAgent external hard drives.

I've already had a computer crash & the worst part was losing all of the paswords that I had stored (I told you I'm 54 - my mind is going). It took me about 6 months to figure them all out. I'd go NUTS if this ever happened to me again.

My life would definitely change for the better if I won. I now have a blog and I could store all of the stuff that I plan to write in the future. It's overwhelming to think what all of this storage would mean (Hey, can you throw in a little closet space as well?)

Dear Grinler;
In response to your question, the loss of my pictures and music would be my greatest loss. I currently have a RAID 5 on my computer for back-up and restore. This array holds my complete and incrmental backups of my C drive.

If this array fails, I have no other means of retrieval and would love to have one of the free-agents to store an off-line copy.

Thanks

Mark

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

I back up my financial data to a diskette about once a month. I occasionally back some things up to a thumb drive, but those are only temporary saves. At least once a year, I burn all my important data onto a CD.

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?

Emotionally- my photos and my favorites files. I've spent a lot of time organizing them and have a lot invested in them emotionally.
Practically - all my financial and tax data. It would be impossible to recreate all the tax data for myself and my clients over the years, not to mention trying to file a return without all my financial data.

3. How would this prize package help you?

It would be a lot more convenient to back up my data and therefore, I would back it up more often. I'd be less at risk of losing my data and I'd have a sharp new gadget to enjoy.

Current backup plans include backing all data up to another internal drive daily, and an occasional image saved to that drive.
Most devastating loss would be loss of extensive family history data with over 1000 ancestors traced and the photo database associated with many of them including my immediate family.
This package would allow me to maintain another more accessible set of backups with more frequency of imaging due to its size.

What is your current backup plan for your computer?
I try to upload some of my "important stuff to use everyday" as many times a week I can with the last version to never lose a lot of work. Then I have an external HDD where I usually deposit things I don't use anymore (pics, and so). I burn some dvd's from time to time, but I hate 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?
All my pictures would be... I don't know, the worsest thing it could happen to me. Years of my life in .JPG! And well, I hate losing my music too.

How would this prize package help you?
I could have an external HDD just to real backup my stuff. The other HDD is just 160GB and its already very full... and I use it for moving documents from here to there.

I would be devastated if my computer crashed and I lost everything. Currently, I use RhinoBack to back up my computer items online. Unfortunately, I'm currently adding massive amounts of music to my computer, which takes a while to upload to an online site.

If I were to lose everything, I'd be at such a loss, I wouldn't even know where to begin. First off, I use a varied set of customized programs (Foobar highly, personally altered) etc, and if all those changes were lost.....Secondly, I have thousands of personal pictures on my computer, most of which exist no where else. Lastly, I have a massive library of FLAC files copied from original cds (to preserve quality). The combination of those three items, all lost, would be terrible.

I'm in college, and if I were able to afford a large-capacity hard drive, I would have done it a long time ago. However, at this time in life, I can't. By winning this contest, it would enable me to back up my entire computer to a single drive, which would be a huge weight off of my chest. Also, I travel often from home to school and this would give me an easy way to carry my data back and forth.

Thanks for hosting this contest!!!

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?

My Current backup plans is not all that it could be that is for sure. It is a 16 Gigabyte Flash drive. It contains vital documents, Pictures, and some source code for school projects that I have been working on. Not to mention numerous reports that myself and my wife have wrote. So how would this prize help me. I could get rid of a 16 Gig Flashdrive and start saving more important things as well such as a Development Database and some of ISO's of some programs I got through Dreamspark.

My most devastating loss of data would be my college work and my family photos.
Currently I backup data every week on dvds.
The current prize package would provide a reliable (and of course free!!!) data storage which is more accessible and reliable

What is your current backup plan for your computer?
For sensitive files (bank statements, things with SSNs, etc) I do periodic backups to an old external drive and then later back up the external drive to DVD/CDs. I load the rest to the cloud and rely on the cloud server's encryption and redundancy. In a sense, pictures are my most valuable irreplaceable data. I haven't found a cloud location I'm satisfied with and have duplicated pictures many times in CD backups that I'm not sure anymore which CDs can be trashed and which may have unique content. Definitely room for improvement.

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?
Pictures. Pretty much everything else can be replaced or recreated.

How would this prize package help you?
I'd have a nice beast that could hold many generations of backups and also be able to store offsite. Family pictures, memories of vacations, and all of those random pictures that make life rich can rest safely for my kids and the rest of the family.