Dads & Grads Giveaway: Seagate 500 GB FreeAgent Go for Mac and PC (CLOSED)

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{We have our winners! The winner for the Seagate FreeAgent Go for PC is Kimberly R who said, “What a wonderful gift idea. We have so many photos of our children on our old PC it would be wonderful to put them in one location that is easy to locate and safe from computer crashes. We teasingly call my husband the “gadget guru” he loves all sorts of computer and electronic stuff. We celebrated our 24th wedding anniversay on the 8th of June – can’t imagine life without him.” I hope he likes this Father’s Day gift!

And the winner of the FreeAgent Go for Mac is Erin. She said, “I would love to win the FreeAgent GoDrive for Mac! Ever since my son was born, I have become a picture taking fool! It would be nice to have a seperate, safe place to store all of my pictures!“

Contact me ASAP with your mailing address (kelsey[at]vanillajoy[dot]com) so we can get you your prizes before Father’s Day. Thanks!}

June is one of my favorite months because of all the changes in the air with getting out of school and the warmer weather. And I get to celebrate  having both a fabulous husband and father! To honor June and all the Dads & Grads out there, we’re doing a giveaway!

THE PRIZE

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Seagate, the “worldwide leader in storage solutions” is giving away a FreeAgent Go 500 GB Portable Drive for MAC & another for PC, so two lucky winners will be chosen! (Be sure to read the giveaway rules carefully and include which one you are entering to win.) The Free Agent Go retails for $149.99 and will make the perfect gift for your Dad or Grad.

MY REVIEW

Seagate is a brand I completely trust for computer storage. Both the FreeAgent Go and the  Replica are high quality, reliable, user friendly drives that keep all my irreplaceable information, pictures, and videos backed up and safe.

freeagent_goThe FreeAgent Go portable drive is a new member of the Seagate FreeAgent family. It is their first product that has been designed specifically for both PC and Mac users. I am a PC person myself, but I know Mac people will appreciate this new product that is specifically designed to suit their external storage needs.

The great thing about Seagate external storage products is that they are pre-installed with all the necessary software. This is a huge selling point for me – I don’t get all the complicated installation stuff, and with Seagate products, I don’t have to know anything except for how to plug the device into my computer. Easy. And again, this is the first Seagate product that has software pre-installed for Mac computers as well as PCs.

In the FreeAgent Go for Mac box, available on June 24, you’ll get the following

  • FreeAgent Go drive
  • Desktop dock
  • Travel Case
  • Firewire 800 cable
  • Firewire 800 to400 cable
  • USB cable
  • USB power cable
  • Quick start guide

The FreeAgent Go for PC will be available June 15, and you’ll get:

  • FreeAgent Go drive
  • FreeAgent software pre-loaded on drive (Windows only)
  • Quickstart guide
  • Flexible USB travel cable – 18 inches
  • Piano black docking station

The PC version comes in your choice of red, blue, silver, or black, and both come with a docking station, which means no fumbling with cords. Leave the docking station plugged in and have easy access to all your files.

Everybody needs a good external drive to backup all those important files, especially the Dads & Grads in your life! The FreeAgent Go is my first choice for an external backup storage solution!

GIVEAWAY RULES

  • Visit Seagate.com
  • Make a comment telling me why you want to win & which product (Mac or PC) before midnight Thursday, June 11.
  • A winner will be selected and announced at the top of this post on Friday.
  • Only one comment per person unless you earn extra entries.
  • Giveaway open only to residents of the continental United States…sorry.

EARN EXTRA ENTRIES

You may earn up to 30 extra entries by blogging about this contest and including certain links – click here to read more about earning these entries.

You may earn 1 extra entry each for doing the following (make a separate comment for each thing you do):

  • Follow me on Twitter
  • Tweet about this contest with link back here (copy and paste http://www.vanillajoy.com right into the text box)
  • Subscribe to my feed
  • Sign up for my newsletter
  • Add my button to your sidebar
  • Comment on any non-contest post (must contribute to the conversation)
  • Facebook about the contest

GOOD LUCK and THANKS, Seagate!

281 thoughts on “Dads & Grads Giveaway: Seagate 500 GB FreeAgent Go for Mac and PC (CLOSED)”

  1. My tech loving Dad would be ridiculously happy if he unwrapped this on Daddy’s Day!!! I’m entering for the MAC version. Thanks!

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  4. Oh, My husband would love to win the PC version please. I checked out the Seagate site and bookmarked it too!

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  14. Dave would definitely like this for everytime he goes on deployments . He’ll start school soon this summer so it would great to have one of those! He’d need one for a PC

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  20. OH My Gosh! I’m loving this one. Seagate is the one and only company I first started computing with years ago, and I mean years ago. They have, in my opinion, the best of everything for computers. I would love to win the pc backup drive by Seagate. Thank you

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  21. Fabulous giveaway! My husband would love this in black and I am a PC.
    Would make a perfect fathers day gift.
    thanks!

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  32. I want to win the one for the PC because I’m so bad about burning my pictures to disc and I’m scared if my computer crashes then I will lose all my pictures and I have a lot!

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  36. I want to win because this would be a great Father’s Day gift for my dad. He has to do a TON of stuff on his computer for work, and I know he could really use this.

    I’d need this for PC

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  38. Wow, my husband would love this! He’s been laid off from work since February and otherwise probably won’t get a Father’s Day gift from me and this would make it a wonderful day. He’s a computer nerd and has been wanting a drive to back up our data to for a while. The PC version for us, please.

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  46. Wow! Great Giveaway!
    I am entering for the Mac version.

    I would love to win to avoid the stress and heartbreak I encountered about a month ago.

    My beloved Mac (only 4 years old) had a massive harddrive attack and passed away. Along with it, it tried to take all my digital photos, many of which had never been backed up to CD. I lost a lot of sleep over that because it seemed there was no way to get them back. After many attemps and several tries, I was finally able to start up in safe mode long enough to copy the files to a borrowed hard drive. Them “boom” no more access to the hard drive.

    So, my iMac passed away, but my treasured photos are still with me. It would be amazing to have a backup system in place that would be easier than burning CDs every month. A simple drag and drop to an external hard drive would be so much more convenient, and therefore I would be able to keep it current.

    I visited the site and was amazed at the variety of colors available in this model. Not only would someone be secure in backup, but they would be styling as well. Love the extra features like the dock for easy connectivity, too!

    Thanks for hosting the giveaway!

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  56. I’d love the Mac version for my hubby. We’ve been talking lately about our need to backup our computer. What a great Father’s Day gift this would make!

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  62. Wow this is one awesome giveaway. My daughter would love to give this to her dad for Father’s Day. She just thinks the world of him and they are best buds. I don’t know if she would be more excited to give it to him or if he would be more excited to get this awesome gift. PC version
    Thanks so much for a chance.

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  69. I would love to win this for my husband. He keeps talking about backing up all of our photos but never has. If our computer crashed we could lose everything! I would like the PC version.

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  77. I am a mac, my husband a PC. We could be a commercial. I would choose mac because he already has a back up hard drive and I don’t!

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  86. My husband and I just bought our first house and my hours at work were cut in half so money is really tight right now. This would really help us out with computer storage! PC please!

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  92. I would love to win the FreeAgent GoDrive for Mac! Ever since my son was born, I have become a picture taking fool! It would be nice to have a seperate, safe place to store all of my pictures!

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  95. I could really use this, as a digital scrapper and photographer…I never have enough storage space for it all! Thanks for the chance to win. (PC version please–not a Mac owner!)

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  96. Would love to win the FreeAgent GoDrive for Mac! We have tons of pictures of our two little boys and really need to back them up!

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  97. I would love to win this for my dad – he and my mom don’t back up anything and dad is shopping for his first laptop right now so… this would be fabulous!
    Thanks for such great giveaways!
    Robin

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  101. I would love to win the FreeAgent GoDrive for Mac! We have tons of pictures of our two little boys, and need a safe external place to store them. They grow much too fast, and we want to make sure we do not run the risk of losing these precious memories.

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  105. We need this so much! ALL of our pictures are just stored on our computer, and I know we both worry about losing them all in a random computer malfunction :o( He’d need the PC version.

    Thanks for the giveaway!

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  109. I want to win because we already have a Seagate hard drive which I’ve really enjoyed, but I just worry that if something happens to that one we’re doomed. We’d go with the Mac version for sure!

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  110. Thanks for the great giveaway! This would make an awesome birthday gift for my husband. Lord only knows we need one of these. When our Mac crashed a while back, my husband told me to research a good backup. Well, at that time I was pretty confused so no decision was made. However, Seagate’s FreeAgent Go for Mac sounds like just the perfect fit ~ big capacity, small package and cable free.

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  113. This would be for my husband for Father’s day. He loves tech things so he’d be thrilled! We have learned the hard way..back up and back up and then back up again! Mac version for me.

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  114. This would be a great gift for my husband his birthday is the day before Father’s Day.
    Thank’s.

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  116. I would love to win the PC one for my hubby who is so nervous of losing all his work and personal items on our computer when I let my kids play on it.

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  128. I really want the PC version. I have so much stuff saved on my desktop and it would be nice to free up some much needed space.

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  134. My son deserves this because he has gone through a lot this year with his computer. He won a Dell laptop 3 years ago and he used that to do all his video editing and music making. Last year while working on a video for church his laptop crashed and he lost all 320 gigs of video. This year he finally managed to build a computer and just last week it was struck by lightening. I think he should win this because he is about to go off to college so he doesn’t have enough money to buy an external hdd him self. This would make a wonderful graduation present. He currently is using a PC.

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  137. After having my laptop stolen from a Paris hotel last November, I learned the hard way about staying backed up. Although I was able to recover some of my data I lost months worth of files and spent a lot of time trying to find files. Since then I back up religiously using a 320GB FreeAgent Go and really love the product. Very small and portable. But, I really need one for backing up my desktop and backing creating a 2nd backup of my laptop backups. (Really, after that experience I will never be caught without a recent backup.)

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  139. I want to win because I never back up my items and I’d DIE if I lost all of my photos, etc. They are very versatile in sizes and that’s great!

    I’d need the PC version.

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  141. I’d love to win the PC version for myself, since I have lots of photos and graphics that I’d like to back up easily (so sick of burning discs). This might just be a Father’s Day present to my husband too, since he can stop bugging me about backups (he’s a tech guy).

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  146. I have a vested interest in the PC version since I work email ends with seagate.com, and I have a random number generator which will work for m–err, you everytime…haha

    Cheers,
    Rick

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  147. This is so wierd – my dad and I were discussing external hard drives – like brands, what size to get, etc. This would be perfect for father’s day (since I think he was hinting!!)

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  152. I’d love to win the one for a PC for my husband. He’s been waiting many years to be a dad and after adopting our son, he finally is one!! I want his first father’s day to be special!

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  154. I would love to be able to give a Mac version of this product to my husband – he’s a computer software analyst and on top of the work-related projects, he heeps his personal program creations on top of the already heavy memory drain, so this would be perfect!

    Thanks so much for the opportunity!

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  156. I have a small business and these are great to keep info backed up and handy all the time no matter where I go. Not to mention how great it is to have photos backed up an not worrying about some of these being lost forever. Besides it is just so cute and portable. fyi I’m a PC :)

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  157. This backup drive would be perfect for my technoligically challenged husband who owns a financial advisory business and is ATTEMPTING to master e-mail and texting! The simplicity of the drive is perfect for him! I am entering for the PC version. PS My friend says “these things rock and they keep me employed!” And we certainly want to keep my good high school buddy employed!!!

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  159. I’d love to win the Mac one. This would be so much better than using DVD’s to back up as we do now. What a time saver.

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  173. It would be nice to have a portable device for my date and photos. It would make it easy to use across multiple computers. I’d like the one for the PC (in red, if we have a choice of color)

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  174. I would love to win the FreeAgentGo for a PC — and I really like the Forest Green color. Last December, my laptop crashed and I lost EVERYTHING. Now I’m paranoid…but have yet to get an external storage device. I would LOVE to win this awesome product from SeaGate…I have heard very good things about them.
    Thanks!

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  186. I would love to win the FreeAgent Go for PC. I need to have a better backup system for my files and pictures, etc. There are too many to back up on CD, my current storage system.

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  190. I would love to win this to use w/ my Mac! I have over 3,000 pictures that I really need to back up. Thanks for the chance!

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  193. I checked out the Seagate site. I would love the PC version…need to get all my scrapbooking and pictures backed up!

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  195. I love seagate! the MAC version will be useful for my husband who is in real need of a new external. He had 3 external hard drives that had lasted for 5 years and they all crashed–one periodically after the other. I subscribed to your blog…love hearing all the updates the tips. Thanks for this opportunity!

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  196. I would love to win because it would be a great present for my husband for Father’s Day. I would get the pc version for him (even though I would really like the Mac one:)

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  198. This would be an awesome gift for my husband for our PC. It is so important to have a back-up plan for those precious photos and music!

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  205. My hubbie could definitely use this! We have multiple computers and this would be great to have something portable. I also like that it is easy to use!

    Thanks again for another fabulous giveaway!

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  209. I’d LOVE this (for my PC)! I have pictures from the last 30 years stored on cd’s, but I use them frequently so it would be nice to have them all in the same place.

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  214. I’d like the PC version. My pc is so bogged down with music and other files, I could free up some serious space with this! Thanks!

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  216. What a great contest. I have a PC, and in this digital age with four photo-takers in the family, we have a lot of pictures, plus I have a lot of data for my church’s ladies’ ministry newsletter. It would be great to have the extra hard drive.

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  219. My husband would love this because we have tons of music and photos on the home computer and we travel around to visit family so it would make taking photos from the desktop to the laptop a snap and we could stop wasting cd’s! We would use the PC version.

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  220. We would really love to have this for our PC. It would be a great addition in order to safeguard all of our music collection as well as the valuable pictures and financial info.

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  222. Wow, how awesome! This would be soo nice to back up all the photos I take of my kids! PC computer (though I wish I had a Mac!)

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  225. I would LOVE to win this external hard drive for all of my photos. They are taking up SO much room on my computer that I can’t use it anymore! This would be a fabulous fathers day gift for my husband {and me as well!}

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  233. I love the pc version in red. And I especially like that it has a docking station. I am the mom to six awesome kids so I could definately use something to keep track of all of the pics! Thanks for the great contest. I so hope I win!!!

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  235. I would love to win the PC version. I really need something to back up my pictures of my little cutie pies!

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  237. Having had to reconfigure my hard drive twice in the last year, I know how important backup is. I love the idea of the docking station, instead of all the cords running around. I would love the red one for PC. Thanks.

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  259. My son is Graduating from College and he would benefit from this with his work. What a great gift this would make.
    (I noticed they have a ton of jobs open in several areas. Fresh out of college he should apply. THanks)

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  267. I would ? to win this! I desperately need to back up all of my fun photos on my PC! Thanks so much for the chance to win!!

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  271. Hello,

    I gave my Dad a Seagate for Christmas, not this one though. So, if I won I’d keep this for me. I have alot of pictures, more than 12,000 and I can’t even count how many digital kits and/or pieces I have that would be great to have stored on an external drive. My iMac is slowly loosing space to do more downloads. LOL

    Hugs,

    PattiM
    (Pattie’s passion)

    I Scrap So All Moments Are Remembered!

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  275. What a wonderful gift idea. We have so many photos of our children on our old PC it would be wonderful to put them in one location that is easy to locate and safe from computer crashes. We teasingly call my husband the “gadget guru” he loves all sorts of computer and electronic stuff. We celebrated our 24th wedding anniversay on the 8th of June – can’t imagine life without him.

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  278. I NEED backup for my PC! I have so many pics and files that I am at risk of losing because I don’t have an external back up. Thank you for the opportunity to win.

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