Thursday, November 5, 2009

Seagate FreeAgent Go- 12 Days Review & Giveaway (Closed)

On the fifth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...

Seagate logo
Papa Bird and I use the computer -- a lot! He is always downloading old heavy metal videos, buying and downloading music and movies and is trying to get all of our video of Baby Bird off the camera and onto a DVD. Then there's me. I design blogs on my spare time, write a monthly column, download textures, fonts and patterns for PhotoShop and I manage this little blog here! We need storage, and when it comes to anything Baby Bird related (photos, video, etc.), we need reliable storage.

FreeAgent GoSeagate developed the FreeAgent Go for Mac and PC and it is the ultimate portable storage solution. I was sent a 500 GB FreeAgent Go for Mac to review. At first glance, it is ultra sleek, measuring about 1/2" thin, and it fits in the palm of my hand (less than 4" X 6"). The bottom has a non-slip surface and the overall design of the FreeAgent Go matches with our Mac computer. Just to look at it and hold it, I can feel and see the quality that goes into making this drive. It is solid and portable. I can pack it into my laptop carrying case; it barely takes up any room at all. My favorite is how the lights on it light up when it is plugged in and working -- very stylish!

FreeAgent GoPapa Bird also reviewed the product as he is big on storage devices. He said he likes the overall design. He also likes that you don't need to turn it on with a power button as it is automatically powered through the USB cable. He can't get over how slim the drive is, it's 1/4 of the size of our current external drive. As a side note, we will be using this drive in place of our current one going forward as our current one has conked out on us before and we don't trust it any more. He also said it's easy to hook up and the data transfer is very fast from computer to external drive. The only thing he didn't like was the short length of the USB cable, but overall he highly recommends it to anyone who wants to back up and store their prized digital possessions.

The FreeAgent Go also comes in 250 GB, 320 GB, 500 GB, and 640 GB and it also comes in a lot of great colors. 500 GB stores a lot of stuff if you break it down, that's up to 160,000 photos, 120,000 songs or up to 500 hours of video - that's a lot of memories!

This would make a great gift for anyone who has a computer and needs to back up even a few precious photos. This is also great for someone, like me, who does a lot of extra work on their computer and needs the storage space to back up their works of art.

The Seagate FreeAgent Go 500 GB for Mac retails for approximately $189.99 and can be purchased from the Seagate website.

FreeAgent GoSeagate has generously offered one lucky This Bird's Day reader a FreeAgent Go for Mac or PC (winner's choice) of their own as a giveaway.

To enter (mandatory entry): Leave a comment at the end of this post telling me either who you will be gifting this too, or what you will store on the FreeAgent Go (please include your email or a way to contact you should you win). *You must do this for any additional entries to count.

After you have completed the first entry, you can enter an additional comment one time only for each of the following:
  • Follow Seagate on Twitter.
  • Become a fan of Seagate on Facebook.
  • Follow This Bird's Day publicly (either in the right sidebar or through Facebook at the bottom of this page).
  • Follow This Bird's Day on Twitter AND tweet about this giveaway linking to this post. Please include your twitter id in your comment (you must do both for this one to count).
  • Be a confirmed email subscriber to my updates (at the bottom right of this page). Simply enter your email address, confirm it and you will receive email updates when I make a new post. This will let you know when there is new content and giveaways on my site.
  • Find out how to get more entries by reading this post.
This contest is open to Canadian and US residents and runs until 9pm MST on Thursday, November 19, 2009.

657 COMMENTS:

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Anonymous said...

Sheri, thanks for your reviews and the opportunity to win these prizes. What a great storage device. I like its simplicity and am amazed at how much data it will hold. I would use it myself, mostly for pictures. I do our family heritage and have collected a lot of pictures, which is filling up my hard drive, and it would be great to have them all at one location.

mamma.meeeea@gmail.com

Anonymous said...

I tweeted!

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Anonymous said...

I am a follower....

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Anonymous said...

I am a confirmed email subscriber

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Robyn said...

Ooohhhh! I need one of these to store my thousand of photos and videos of my little one!!!!

arctic_teacher(at)yahoo(dot)ca

Robyn said...

Follower

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Email Subscriber

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Robyn said...

"Early Bird Entry #1"

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Robyn said...

"Early Bird Entry #2"

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Robyn said...

"Early Bird Entry #3"

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"Early Bird Entry #4"

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"Early Bird Entry #5"

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Serena said...

Wow so cool! If I won I would gift it to my wonderful hubby :) he totally deserves it!

Serena said...

I entered in the Early Bird Entrants so my second comment is that my hubby would fill it with his style of music (bleh!).

serena said...

Here's my email subscription entry! Thanks so much :)

Kristina Cummins said...

Hi, my name is Kristina. I'd gift this present to my dad. At 60 years young, he is a 'big kid' at heart and loves gadgets that make his life easier. He'd love this!!!
My email address is icipici@mts.net
Many thanks for the opportunity to enter this! :)
Cheers, Kristina.

Margaret said...

I would love to give it to my husband, who downloads stuff all the time.
daisy_ms@hotmail.com

CanadianMama said...

I would gift this to my hubby who would freakin LOVE it! I would win major wife points for this one!!

Elonda said...

Wow what a neat gadget!! I would gift this to the whole family so we could all save a little bit of our favourite things on it.
This is a great contest and thanks for all the hard work it took and the exciting prizes. Its exciting each morning to check what todays giveaway is!!
Thanks
Elonda
elonda@sympatico.ca

nadine said...

I would greedily keep this for myself!! :)
Awesome contest, love husband/wife reviews!!

nadine said...

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CanadianMama said...

I'm a follower!

CanadianMama said...

Early bird #1

CanadianMama said...

Early bird #2!

audrey said...

I would give it to my in-laws to store the over 7,000 photos they have of my two little girls.

thanks,
spamus(at)telus(dot)net

KarineKiki said...

Wow, what a great device!! We would deffinatly use it to hold all of our pictures, songs, etc. Having a backup sounds really great! I always hear about people losing alot of their data/pictures and I always cringe when I hear that!
karinekiki@hotmail.com

KarineKiki said...

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Carla said...

I would keep this for myself and use it to back up the thousands of pictures waiting to be eaten off my computer by a crash.

carlamo (at) ymail (dot) com

Carla said...

I am a follower.

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Outnumbered said...

I'd keep this for me and hubby for backing up kids photos and videos!
jonahrylan at gmail dot com

Paula said...

I'd definitely be giving this to my hubby!!
pjkmitchell at hotmail dot com

Outnumbered said...

I'm a follower

Outnumbered said...

I subscribe!

Danielle said...

My husband would love this siroisd@shaw.ca

Danielle said...

I'm a follower siroisd@shaw.ca

agordon10 said...

I'll give it to my husband

Valerie said...

I need this sooo bad! For my mac
I need to store all my photos and mostly, music!
KawaiiNeko2008 at aol dot com

Suzi Fevens said...

I would store my music files on it. I'm a fitness instructor so I have a lot of music!!

suzifevens at hotmail dot com

Suzi Fevens said...

following seagate on twitter

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seagate gacebook fan

Toby said...

If I won this, I would gift it to me! I need one to store all my photos, photos and more photos. Plus I would store my many music files and graphic files. Great prize!

Anonymous said...

I guess I'd gift this to my wife who is more computer literate than I and would put it to better use. Nice contest. elyaklang@hotmail.com

Annie1 said...

I would love this for myself! I have alot of photos on here and they are slowing down my computer!!


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julesn2boys said...

:) this is awesome my husband would go crazy for this... i mean it, there would probably be everything from music to photos on it. thanks Sheri

juliathejewel at hotmail dot com

Annie1 said...

EB Entry

I emailed 10 people but don't remember how many entries that gets me!

ty

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julesn2boys said...

subscriber :)

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julesn2boys said...

early bird

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Lawrence said...

I would use this myself to store all my photos and videos from family events and vacations.

Cheers

ef4ervescent@yahoo.com

pam said...

This would be a great gift for my hubby

pytoomanykids@gmail.com

pam said...

EB 1

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EB 2

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pam said...

following sponsor on twitter as ccmouse

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following your blog

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mitch1066 said...

ooh id keep this and store all my crafting files on here to let my pc run faster:)

mitch1066 said...

http://twitter.com/mitch1066/status/5459136825

abfantom said...

I would give this to my husband so he can back up our iTunes, photos, vidoes and financial information.

abfantom at yahoo dot com

shannon said...

i'd keep this one for myself and store pictures and videos of the kiddos!

shannon said...

follower

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extra entry for event button

SamiJoe said...

Seems this is a VERY popular giveaway! BUT i want it!!!
I would gift it to my hubby-- this really is his 'bag' (said in Austin Powers voice), but for sure we would use it to store our bevy of pics of the kids.
Would be a shame to lose all that.....

sami@platinum.ca

SamiJoe said...

I'm a follower too!


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Kim said...

I'll keep this and store photos on it!

mverno said...

my son would enjoy this mverno@roadrunner.com

amy lynn said...

I subscribe!
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amy lynn said...

facebook fan
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shammy said...

I would use the FreeAgent to keep all of our pictures and videos of our two little birdies safe and backed-up. I'm at smcgurran@gmail.com

shammy said...

I'm an email subscriber, too.
smcgurran@gmail.com

Anonymous said...

My son would love this so I would give it to him for Christmas

noonefan@hotmail.com

Suzanne said...

I will be gifting this to my son as he works in the computer industry and would really appreciate it.

AZcomm said...

I'm gifting this to my wife if I win!

AZcomm said...

I'm following Seagate on Twitter!

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Following This Bird's Day on Twitter and tweeted here: http://twitter.com/AZcomm/status/5460610949

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yeah said...

i would store pics of cool carrots

Tracey said...

I would store my music and my pictures.
traymona[at]aol.com

Vanessa said...

just found out our computer is running out of space for pics and such. I would love this one.

Anonymous said...

I would give it to my brother!
pandorarox09(at)yahoo(dot)com

charity-23 said...

This would be a great xmas present for my husband!


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I'm a subscriber!





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The Grahams said...

Awesome giveaway! My husband would love this under the tree this Christmas!
johnsonjanicelynn@hotmail.com

The Grahams said...

I'm a follower

KPort207 said...

I will giving it to my daughter as she has never backed up her computer before, thanks.

kport207 at gmail dot com

Amber said...

I would gift this to my dad!
Thanks for the giveaway :)
hurdler4eva(at)gmail(dot)com

Amber said...

I follow your blog!
Thanks for the giveaway :)
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anny32 said...

my father wuld get this because he uses one of his computers for work and if he lost the info of all his contacts...o my what a disaster

Snug N Luv said...

I will use this baby to store my photos. I would love it.

Snug N Luv said...

I'm a follwer.

Snug N Luv said...

I subscribe too.

Rachel said...

We would definitely be using this for our media center!

lfhpueblo said...

I'd get it for a PC. I'd gift it to my husband Chuck. He'll probably store all the bill paying stuff and tax stuff on it, plus favorite photo's, resume stuff etc..

lfhpueblo said...

Lauralee Hensley google account entry.
I became a Seagate Fan on facebook and left them a comment today.

lfhpueblo said...

I'm subscribed to your site via email. Good luck to all.
Lauralee Hensley

as said...

I would be giving it to my husband who just purchased our first mac computer!

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yayasue said...

I would use it for me and store all my videos and pictures! What an awesome giveaway. thanks!!

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Rita said...

I would love to win this for myself to store all my pictures and videos.
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Anonymous said...

I would give it to my mom as a gift so she may save all our family photos and documents

Lord_nightspirit@hotmail.com

Miss Manda said...

i would get it for myself for my macbook

i would store all my songs and photos on it, i have a ton!



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Miss Manda said...

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Di said...

I would give this as a gift to my guy who is an avid photographer. He lost a lot of photos when he had computer problems. I think if he had this his photos would be safe from now on.

Heather said...

I would use it for my Music and photos!! Thanks 4 the giveaway.
me_
cheerful(at)hotmail(dot)com

Anonymous said...

What wouldn't you use the Seagate Freeagent Go to store? Pictures, recipes, business files, the list could go on and on.

jmowat@shaw.ca

Anonymous said...

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Lo said...

I would love this for my wife.

Lo said...

I follow Seagate on Twitter (I'm @prizealert)

Lo said...

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Celeste said...

I would love to win this so I can give it to my dad

contact me at:
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Celeste said...

Blog follower

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Anonymous said...

I'm going to be giving it to my girlfriend. She has a small business and could really use something like this.

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blabla3269 said...

ohhhhhh we so need this

Jessica said...

I am expecting a baby in April and need a place to store all of the pictures and videos we will be taking. jessicaannewilde@gmail.com

Arlene said...

I would love to win this. Besides using it to store digital pictures. I do genealogy research and have thousands of files I need to back up.

arlene
arlene9999@earthlink.net

Arlene said...

I am following Seagate on Twitter

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Arlene said...

I follow you on twitter

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Arlene said...

I am a confirmed email subscriber

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Mamushi Love said...

I'd keep it for myself to store all of the photos and videos I've taken so far.

Nadine said...

I would use the Seagate FreeAgent for PC to store all the many memories of our little beans life so we could add them to her life book as she grows and she learns her story. We all have them. Thanks for this opportunity.


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Nadine said...

I am a FB friend.


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Nadine said...

I am a email subscriber.

EB#2

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Laura said...

This would be for me. I'd love to have a reliable back up for all the pictures and videos of my daughter.

Laura said...

I am now following your blog.

Walt A said...

I would backup my files and store all the music I've illegally downloaded over the years as well as torrents of movies. Hey at least I'm honest.

Walt A said...

Now following Seagate. Thanks!

Walt A said...

I'm a fan on facebook

Walt A said...

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Robin B said...

I'd use the Seagate FreeAgent to store video. I take quite a bit of it, and storage is currently a problem.

thesehappydays said...

I would gift this to my husband. He would love it! He is in charge of backing up all our precious photos of the kids' first years.
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I'm a public follower
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I'm an email subscriber
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Jet'set said...

My nest could sure use an external hard drive! Especially as we're about to have baby 2.0!
inalak at msn dot com

Jet'set said...

I'm following!
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Apple said...

I will store all my photos and work stuff in the Seagate FreeAgent for PC. I just need this so much because I work in an Internet company.

applez_55@yahoo.com

Jacaclawless said...

I will be giving this to my wife - she is a avid amateur photographer and needs her own drive to store all of her pictures! Thanks for having the giveaway!

Dee said...

I would love to give this to my husband or son because they are such computer junkies! ;)

buzzd said...

I would use it to store my pics, musics and business documents. It would be great to know it is all safe.

Sheila said...

I would use this to store my music, movies and photos on. After having a hard drive crash, it's great to have a back-up!

Anonymous said...

I would gift it to my dad. He has done so much for us and has done tons of research on our family history. With all the work he does, he could really use a great storage device like this one.
Stephanie (suddenlyspoo@gmail.com)

sue14625 said...

i could use this for pictures or music or patterns or so many things i follow on Twitter and tweeted this giveaway-Bigcat59 on Twitter

tawnda said...

it would be great to have everyones music in one place... even better to be able to take it from system to system with ease...
win [at] tawnda [dot] com

Mike said...

I would give this to my wife as she desperately needs a backup drive for all of our kid photos and videos! Thanks!
Mike.karr at gmail.com

tawnda said...

new google follower

Bebemiqui said...

My sister's computer is on its way out, so I'd love to give her this to backup everythin important.
bebemiqui82(at)yahoo(dot)com

Homero Gutierrez said...

I would love to give this to my brother, he moves alot of data around and this would help him do it alot quicker.


empire90@hotmail.com

Canadianladybug said...

I would give this to my husband as he is a techy too. What would we store on it? mmm! More than likely pictures/videos of our family, back ups of them and then store it in the safe which is fireproof.

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Cheryl said...

I would store my writing and my artwork on the backup drive. I'd also backup my computer, which i know is very important.

Susan K. said...

I would probably give it to my sister because she is always complaining about how small her hard drive is.

Deci Worland-MacKinnon said...

I would give it to my hubby to back up his laptop.

Amber said...

I would love this for my Mac! I have family photos, music files, and old videos that I'd love to store on this for safe keeping. Love the modern design too. Thanks! :)

shevilkenevil1 at aol dot com

Amber said...

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Anonymous said...

Blog follower-
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The Dreamer said...

I would give this to my mom so that she can store all the pics of her new grandson!

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maweisberg said...

i want to win this

wildflower00 said...

I would keep this for myself. I have wanted one of these for a long time now. I have lost pictures before on my computer and I would love to have this to store them on instead of my computer

wildflower00 said...

I follow Seagate on Twitter

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Jeff/Ilana said...

Would probably use it as a Time Machine backup.

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Followed Seagate on Facebook

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Jeff/Ilana said...

Actually should of said Followed on Twitter!

Now a Fan of Seagate on Facebook

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sphinx63 said...

This would be a great gift for my daughter. She has lots of movies that she has edited on her computer and this would be perfect for storing them.

sphinxcw at aol dot com

Brad said...

This would be great for me to back up all of my photos.

timothy l said...

great christmas gift

mobrien said...

I'd give it to my wife, who has lots to back up.

Annette D said...

I would love it to back up my pictures and my music.
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