It’s Black Friday, you slept through your alarm, and are now scouring the web for the leftover deals (ie. non HD LCD TVs). Well why not sit back, relax, and enter to win some free drives from Seagate? Whether you give them away to your mother-in-law as a present or keep them for your movie collection, nothing beats free.
Winners will get their choice of either a FreeAgent Desk 1TB or FreeAgent Desk for Mac 1TB as well as a 500GB FreeAgent Go or 500GB FreeAgent Go for Mac portable drive. The FreeAgent Go for Mac has FireWire 800 and USB ports comes in a silver and white design. It matches the look and feel of a MacBook. The FreeAgentGo (non Mac) is much slimmer and comes in Red, Forest Green, Sky Blue, Tuxedo Black and Silver.
For a chance to win all you need to do to is answer following questions in the comment form at the bottom of this article: What do you have on your computer that you could not live without, if you lost it?
Only one entry per person. Entry valid by answering the required question as well as leaving your email address in the comment form. We’ll pick a random winner from all the entries received by 11:59PT on Friday December 6. Click here for the full list of Dabbledoo contest rules.
You can also enter to win one of the ten hard drive bundles at these sites once they post their rules:
music and documents — ugghh — i don't want to even think about it
My code and school work…
My old work and documents from over the years. I can't bear to lose all that!
My new software project and the internet.
I could not live without the my collection of MP3's.
My homework.
i can't live with out my school work such as word documents and power point. I also can't live without my pictures and music.
I live for MP3s!
Music, Photos, Novel
i have been looking for a long timefor something like this. my dauther her college really needs it
On my computer I keep a day-to-day, archived Dream Log in a .txt document on my Macbook.
Every day when I wake up, before brushing my teeth or taking a shower I quickly type up as much as I can remember about a dream, and then save it and go on with my day.
Being a filmmaker, I'm constantly on the lookout for inspiration, and this Dream Log is one of the best places to refer to for pure, raw, unfiltered subconscious inspiration. I've been keeping it for almost a year now, and if I lost it that would be hundreds of dreams that I'd never see again…
Unless I backed it up, of course.
-Kev
I will store all of my videos
I've heard that this is a great product!
Cool, I want one!
My ongoing 3 year "project" constituting over 320 MS Word files, 54 PowerPoint presentations, and over 1000 images and music files. I am of course talking about my collegiate career so far!
I could not live without all my music. I have over 5,000 songs in my iTunes library. I need my music to survive. Without my music,well to put it simply, Shit would suck.
My music music videos.
i'd be pretty darn upset if i lost my wedding pics that i have on my computer. i also could not live with out my little artsy pics that i took and have stored on my comp. thanks
If I lost my computer I would lose most of my life by I mean my pic.. my music videos stuff like that
I keep in touch with my family
Mainly it is photos and music. I had a hard drive crash about 1 year ago and lost half my music collection I am doing what I can to hold on to the other half of it.
i agree completely
Roboform! Besides filling in forms, I use it to keep all my passcodes, which I use for work. I'd be dead in the water without it. Oh, and also Excel and Word! Again, see dead in the water comment!
music and photos
I would lose 10 Gigs of music I painstakingly collected.
about 4000 itunes.
I would die if I lost completed assignment for college that I have saved.
On my computer I have about 10gb of music I've collected over the years and I'd hate to lose that!
I could not live without my Roboform Pro. I would go nuts if I had to type the same things over and over again, and it would be so time-consuming. *Thanks* for the giveaway!
The two things I have on my computer that are not replaceable are family pictures andtax info from previous years….needed in case I get audited. I use flash drives right now, but know I should use a more formal system.
I couldn't live with out my msn messenger with my new friends.
It will be my digital photos, home videos, and my passwords to websites. I don't live close to my family and it would sucks if I lose those pics and videos of them.
Family photos I've taken on various trips over the years. I really need to back them up. Hint HInt!
I use my laptop for everything for school. I am in special ed for reading, writting, and speech, so I use my laptop for all of my notes, assignments, drawings, and sometimes recored the class to my laptop. Everything besides the recordings get backed up to my time machine drive. I have everything I have typed into my computer since I got my first laptop 5 years ago.
I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT MY ICHAT
I am a graphic artist, so I would be in a lot of trouble if I ever lost all of my design files and stock photos. Those things are important and take up a lot of space.
Matter of fact, I recently did lose a lot of important files when my external harddrive went corrupt. I'm still in the process of trying to find someone to recover those things. Maybe soon!
-Cat
cathryn@GraphicsByCathryn.com
I would really hate to lose all my music.
My original songs that i have written on guitar pro, that is the only place that i have them and i have put so much time and effort into everyone of them!
I would not be able to replace all the photos. Particularly the ones I have painstakingly used IPhoto on.
What do you have on your computer that you could not live without, if you lost it?
I write, strictly as a hobby. I have 8 novels done. Had 12 and lost the other 4. They were written on paper and thrown out by accident during a move. So I know the pain of loosing them. I still get depressed over it.
My family pictures-It would be horrible if I lost them.
I could not bear to loose all of my photographs. I would be so sad if I lost them. Loosing years worth of memories would be bad.
My daughter makes videos, and they are only stored on my computer. Everything else is replaceable.
Pictures – You can recreate/reacquire documents, code, power point and music. You can't recreate the past. Always backup your photos.
MUSIC!!!
I'd have to say my music, most of my documents are backed up, but I don't have enough space on my current external drive for all my music.
old photos would be important. i really dont have important documents on here. thanx
My legally downloaded movies!!
seagate 1
Five years of photographs.
pictures- family photos
I couldn't stand to lose my family photos. Losing all those good times and memories would really be a drag. –That, and the nuclear launch codes, the location of Atlantis and, oh yeah, next week's winning lottery numbers.
I am a student who saves all my work from all my years on the computer along with all my music and video production files. I use it to reference back in my classes and I save the video production files to help others when they need help with filming and editing. I also have AIM Logs on there from like a LOOOONGG time ago and like reading to see how I've changed. I think I would just kill myself if I lost everything.
pictures, lots and lots of pics
Backing-up my data is my most important back-up
i'm an aspiring film/music producer so i've been taking video production classes and been working on music mixes for the past year. if i lost those, i'd probably just die. all that hard work down the drain.
Backups: Roboform data and lots of music mp3's.
Final Cut Projects for work.
I would be lost without all my code and music.
I'm a screenwriter so it would be my screenplays…
Music, and movies and pics (Oh MY!!!)
I use an external drive managed by MS Live 1 Care for regularly scheduled backups. Special backups such as movies scripts and special photographs go onto non-volatile memory cards
I have lots of pictures that are really irreplaceable.
I got's all kinda stuff, my mail and games mostly and movies and music and some apps and my resume's. Gahh guess I need a job also.
My articles, photos, journals.
After I get something with 1TB storage, I'll backup all my about-to-scratch fave DVDs.
My iTunes music collection. Before I got smart about backing up my system I had to restore my music collection from my iPod.
It would be my extensive PDF library along with my iso's.
Our family photo's, financial information, phone numbers and addresses and some personal info.
Would love to win this. Thanks for offering this giveaway.
Photos and myspace!!
All of my taxes for the past few years are on there. All of my music, my CV – all the things I couldn't live without.
Digital photographs of my 6 grandchildren!
I could not live without my work. I run an indie record label. Among the normal personal stuff I have multi-track audio projects, audio mastering projects, cover art and point-of-sale design projects, multiple web sites, video projects, contracts, reports, and tons more.
Porn! Well, no- I'm not THAT pathetic. Family pics would be tough to live without.
pictures.
Our wedding and honeymoon pictures
My music,Photos,School work,Passwords,Chat logs,And my games
What do you have on your computer that you could not live without, if you lost it?
On my computer, I have PDF scans from my fifty-six year old father with heart failure, telling me what to do in the event of his death. These are really important because I'm the last of the bloodline from his side of the family, and if these were lost I don't know what I'd do.
Thanks for the awesome contest, and have a nice day!
Nathan
I have too many photos and not enough space!
I just recently lost some important files for school when a virus got into my computer. Now that it's fixed I always back up my data on thumb drives or external drives. This package would make it complete – I have some pretty big digital files for art classes!
Definitely my music. I lost it all once and it was very tragic. Do not want that to happen again.
My family pictures
I would have almost no use for my computer if I lost internet, after that I would hate to lose my photos.
I would be devastated if I lost all my family's pictures on my computer.
Photos
I have taken on the job of totally transforming a clients website. It's been three years and almost complete. If that gets lost…
Also, my pictures I have of my late grampa "Poppop" which is really all I have left of him since he died when I was 6. If I lost those two things I'm not even sure what I would do to myself. I just hope for the best that my hard drive won't crash until I can get enough money to buy a backup. It's just hard to do that right now with money running really tight. I would really appreciate any help. Happy thanksgiving guys (speaking to both guys a girls)
I'm a photography student and have photos from Africa and Europe that would devistate me to lose.
I ripped all 1,500 music CDs and have ever been able to make a backup of them. I also have have digitized all kinds of photographs from my family that could never be replaced.
What do you have on your computer that you could not live without, if you lost it?
The worst possible thing that I could lose would be my photography work. I’ve traveled worldwide with my notebook and camera, and have amassed a collection with thousands of my favorite pictures. It would be absolutely AWFUL to lose any one of those pictures. They all are so precious to me, and each has its own special memory and meaning. My photos, and hence my laptop, are a part of my life that I couldn’t afford to lose.
I have some invaluable pictures and some family information that is really important and some tax files.
Music! I had a trojan that blew up my music library of over four thousand songs. Luckily one I cleared the trojan and reloaded my music carrier….they all came back.
Family photos, that I don't have backed up
1Password, my password manager.
my photos and money docs.
My family photos…… I would seriously cry if I ever lose them….. and I have LOTS of them.
My pictures!
I have nothing on my computer that I couldn't live without because I have learned not to keep anything exclusively on my HD. But with this recovery-based HD I could think differently.
I can't live without my thousands of dollars worth of iTunes music I've downloaded of the past 2 years. And if I lost it, it would take me another 2 years, countless hours of downloading and thousands more dollars to replace it.
I could not live without my photos, to lose them would be devastating!
I have a book that I am starting to write, losing all that information would be a killer!
I could not live without my family photos or my music.
The nude photos of my wife.
My photos (trips and grandkids)
I would have a big problem if I lost all my music and videos. I've got all my important stuff backed up thank goodness, but I really don't know if I could live without my media, and I just don't have the space on my hard drive to back all of it up.
my personal old IM & Email communications. Both are very important for me.
My hundreds of photographs.
It would have to be the family pictures,we have loads of 14 grandkids and 4 dogs.
Photos. I would hate to lose all my photos!
MP3 files. Thanks for the giveaway.
My Mp3s, some music I recorded, important photos.
main thing on my computer I would not like to loose is our digital pictures. We back them up to DVD every so often, but I could live with it. Since I don't take the time to do anything about it. Otherwise, everything else is expendable.
I have lots of emails in outlook, both personal and business. I have lost them a couple of times before I started getting them off of the computer to an external drive.
writings letters downloads of various sorts
I was lucky for now (knocking on wood) and when my HDD failed several times I always was able to recover it’s content with some recovery software (even after formatting it!)…
I now bought a TabletPC and when i try to synchronize most of my improtant data between my PC/TPC/WM phone with Live Mesh and Dropbox I periodically have some data on my TPC which arent synchronized. Most of them are work related and it would be really bad if I lost them which is quite easy as normal notebook HDDs fail quite often and SSDs are too expensive as of now
I'd be so sad to lose photos and videos of my children!
The most important thing that I would loose would be my C++ projects and other documents for school.
my unfinished screenplay, music, photos and code.
Pictures and work documents. Thanks for the contest!
Pictures of my two girls.
My projects in Final Cut Studio. They are what I am.
I could not live without iTunes……..
pics and home movies
My family pictures.
Besides my personal stuff – the software I use to work, and which takes almost a week to rebuild from the original discs.
My dissertation.
I have about 25GB worth of photos and scans, which I could not replace if I lost them. I've been thinking of backing them up to DVD, but that's going to take a few of those…I also have my email archives (dating back to 1999) and my documents, including previously mentioned roboform data!
I couldn't live without my music or roboform.
My writing and pictures of family
Our 3 month old son's photos.
My books, journals, business records, website design–more than I can bear to think about.
I can't live without my 16000+ songs on iTunes. I have it on an external HDD, and I back it up weekly because I'm so afraid of losing it.
I'm a student, and all of my schoolwork is on my computer. I couldn't live without it, I would flunk out of school!
Family addresses, and my research, the beginnings of my dissortation, and a great deal more.
Our family photos!
Audio session recording files & music.
music and pictures
i have so many pictures saved and docs its incredible
everything!!!
Mainly if I lost photos and home automation information
I DONT KEEP ANYTHING IMPORTANT ON MY COMPUTER
4000 digital photos
my sweeps, save save save.
Schoolwork and Research papers
sweeps, make a living.
Mainly pictures and Roboform. I suspect though that saying I couldn't live without it is a little over the top, although I would certainly hate to lose them!
medical records… you have no idea how hard that stuff would be to gather up again…
The most devastating thing will be losing around 10 Gb of VITAL DOCUMENTS, 60 GB of my Pictures and about 40 GB of music.
I would absolutely freak out if I lost all of my photos…my grandsons and other family.
All of my non-backed-up (shame on me) instrument files for Reason and Ableton + pics of distant, unknown relatives I've been sent or have scanned over the years.
My digital photos and my graphic design projects!!! I've lost so many before due to crashes and I really need some external memory!!
I lost all my files once, the hard drive failed..a backup would be great!
I keep all of my documents on my computer and if it were to crash I would lose everything.
Pics
VERY COOOOOOOOOOOL FOR LOTS OF PHOTOS OF MY GRANDCHILDREN
PHOTOS OF MY GRANDCHILDREN
my photos
I work from home — all of my work files are on the computer. Ugh, I don't even want to think about losing all of that!
all my work data
I could not live without the photo collection I've amassed — most of it documenting priceless, irreplaceable memories.
I like my photos, to save and share.
My ethernet port.
I would be devastated if I lost my photos. Thanks for the reminder to BACK UP YOUR STUFF!!!
Pictures of my kids
i could not live without the photos of my foreign family.
i would hate to lose those
I would be pretty devastated if I lost all of my in progress design files. Having to start over would suck.
All of my Tunes OF Course!!!
It would be my music, family videos and photos, and important documents.
emails
I really don't have anything that I couldn't live without on my computer. I have some graphics and my emails that I wouldn't like to lose, but it wouldn't be a huge deal. Any audio stuff like podcasts I havn't listened to could easily be downloaded again. That being said, it would still be a pain in the arse to lose my hard drive contents.
It would just kill me to lose all our family photos. Which reminds me, I have to burn some discs.
Only one thing? LOL Music is my main one…I have music that I have had for years on my computer. Next would be pictures.
pictures of my kids, years worth. I would cry a river if I lost them
Photos and chatlogs. Basically my entire middle and high school memories!
Is this open to those outside the US? I couldn't live without the file of my novel-in-progress.
All of my graphics and pictures!
Internet. I could not live without my internet. No really, my hard drive would be a total devastation if I lost that. Again. Oy!
Personal photos and videos
My precious photos. Thanks for the giveaway!
Quotes for clients
I could not live without my pictures, and my daughter would just die if we lost her music.
Computer programming projects I have been working on for over a year.
I would really hate to lose all my photos
Pictures and videos of my family and friends.
Photos and video of my friends and family.
There is nothing on my computer that I couldn't live without, but I would be very unhappy if I lost all my Roboform logins, email, and photos.
My Family Photos and Videos.
My receipts and my current projects.
If I told you, I'd have to kill you… Pictures and resources mostly.
All of my data is near and dear to my heart. All I can classify as unimportant is my software since it is all backed up in some form or another. Everything else is invaluable and I currently have no backup plan for it. It would be a catastrophe to lose anything from photos to bookmarks to schoolwork.
I could not live without my MP3 converted vinyl collection.
Photos, without a doubt. They are irreplaceable. Thanks for the contest!
My massive music collection. It'd take me a while to recollect it. That and my projects, essays and other work.
Photos of my parents and other things from the past. I can't find those ever again. That and my massive music collection. It would take me ages to get all my music back.
Family Pictures
I have pictures and videos of my family. This includes a biographical interview from my grandfather who passed away earlier this year.
I have my company files on nQuickbooks. If I lost those, I'd be screwed. I've backed up to disks before, only to have them crash as well. Thanks!
my music – both purchased and composed
pictures are what i chave on the computer now and would not be able to live without
I think the multitude of photos we have on our computer are the things I dread losing. I try to back them up as often as I can, but I have nightmares of losing them. I would spend the rest of my life mourning all the lost photos of my children.
Nothing that I can't live without, but I wouldn't like to lose my pictures and my e-mail.
pics.
I could NOT live without all my pictures and videos…also all the wavs I have saved over the years!!!
mikay@wfeca.net
What would I most miss? I have an email file labeled Fan Mail that I use when I need re-heartening. I would miss that.
I now think in terms of email files being precious because a hard drive crash cost me all my email from 9/11, when friends and relatives all over the world wrote me as soon as they heard, to see if I and mine were safe. I lived on that email, that day.
I couldn't live without my digital photos.
I can't do without my videos. Losing them would be heartbreaking.
my bookmarks; no way I could ever find all those sites again
The most important thing on my computer would have to be my pictures and all my documents. If I ever lost them I would be in complete lose. Thankfully they are backed up to a flash drive but still I would be lost.
Pictures of my kids.
MP3 and bookmarks
Pictures and movies of my family, my daughters. Memories gone, that would hurt.
I could not live without my photos, music, and home movies if they all disappeared. I would be devastated.
What do you have on your computer that you could not live without, if you lost it?
Probably my music and my pictures. Too much music to recover and pictures you can't put a price on or locate anywhere else if lost.
I'd lose all my pictures, music & financials for the last 5 years!
music!
I wont be able to live without my docments
My pictures and music without a doubt. I could recover from losing pretty much everything else.
NOTHING!! – I back up
I couldn't live without my MP3's. It would take me months to recover probably 50% of them, years to get them all again.
What do you have on your computer that you could not live without, if you lost it ?
Answer :- It would be my emails & many text files which i'm keeping with me for years now.
family pictures…memories in digital form
Photos…. With the wonderful technology of digital cameras, comes an easy chance for a life time of photos to be lost. I lost a lot photos before… pictures of my son growing up, pictures from my wedding, first anniversary spent at Niagara Falls etc.. lost a lot of collage work I had on there, but that nothing in comparison to a life time of memories.
I'd hate to lose all of my family photos!
The only thing on my computer that I couldn't live without is thw photos of our family.
i simply could not live without my music. i'm a guitarist, so music means the world to me…and to loose my itunes collection would just be a devastating blow to who i am as a person.
My internet and email Would be totally lost without it
family pictures and our family tree
I could not live without my Adobe Photoshop program!
lilacflowers180 AT yahoo DOT com
I would be devasted if I lost all of the reports, essays, and notes that I have saved on my computer for years.
Songs and poetry that i have written. they arent saved anywhere else!
Hope that never happens to me again. Most damaging was the loss of Outlook files – that was a few years ago.
Passwords to accounts, long gone parents pictures
Quicken
What do you have on your computer that you could not live without, if you lost it?
–> definitely, definitely, definitely music.
Mp3's, photos and my work
My Roboform with the neat password generator. I have no idea what most of the passwords are now. I also have a bunch of song files that would be nice to get off the main drive.
I am a filmmaker and I could lose all of my films!
I have over 13,000 pictures I could not live without!!!
I couldn't live without my 13,000+ pictures
All my digital photos from my last 3 comeras.
The most important thing on my computer that I could not live without are the movies of the kids growing up which I converted from film to my hard drive.
I'd be so sad to lose my pictures!
I can alway reload downloads and music CDs that I own that if my computer crashed I would have to spend hours reconstructing everything, but important documents are another matter.
I have a boatload of mp3s that has taken my years to collect.
Definitely photos.
My works are very important thing
I would not be able to live without my NYC Marathon pictures. Once in a lifetime experience – and sadly enough, I only have them backed up on a website and no where else!!!
My calendar and phone book
My backup system is currently a spindle of dvds.
I have pictures of me and my grandma and grandpa from my recent trip to Florida…cheesy hahaha
But yeah I would love some kind of backup solution!
What do you have on your computer that you could not live without, if you lost it?
The pictures of my kids from when they were little would be the worst, but there are many other things such as documents and music that would be quite distressing as well.
My documents and my digital photos.
Tons of music and an awful lot of photos.
I have my entire digital life on my MacBook Pro: Pictures, Movies, TV Shows, Music, Short Stories, an unfinished novel, movie footage, screenplays, radio sketches… And I currently have no way to back this stuff up. It would be devastating if I were t have a hard drive failure.
My financial records to track spending year to year. Oh yeah….definitely my updated resume.
Mostly my School Work and 3D Artwork.
My digital photos. If I lost those my wife would kill me.
Pictures from my cross country driving trip.
Papers and research – I'm currently in grad school.
I would be devastated to lose my digital photos and videos. Family gatherings, pets and everything else.
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.
I have 4 children and have scanned all of their art and school projects that I have not had room to store.
I also have 15 years worth of my family history research. It contains generations of information and documents previously unknown about my ancestors.
I consider both of these areas to be completely irreplaceable and would be shattered to loose either.
Music and photos!
Music, photos, porn collection
My entire collection of 70s and 80s albums that I've converted to iTunes.
I couldn't live without my pictures…
Lots of pics of my 3 yr old and 4 month old. Old taxes information too.
I would hate to lose the digitized copies of our old family pictures. Some files contain restored and repaired copies. Please accept my entry. Thank you.
I'd be in big trouble if I lost my schoolwork, and devastated if I lost my music and pictures.
my mind…..
My work in progress novel.
pictures. everything from vacations, to childhood home, to the first moments of my twins' lives.
My music, pictures and videos, as well as research papers I have spent weeks writing.
All my Photo ref and art scans. Yikes!
travel photos and school files
nothing that's not backed up!
I have around 25 gigs of pictures that can never be replaced if lost.
Everything … more than I should.
I would say most of my ITunes Library.
my book
Sitting on my computer is a master file containing username/passwords, so if this is gone, I'd have trouble accessing all of the important websites (banking, insurance, shopping).
My computer is pretty much my life. My computer has all the assets for a half dozen web sites I am currently building, video projects, photoshop documents, 3D animation. I back everything up to DVD-Rom, but I could sure use this drive. Thank you for the great give-away.
My photos, videos, and music.
this illustration of a cartoon unicorn and pegasus fighting to the death… found it on a random website somewhere. it's hilarious, but i'd guess you'd have to see it to understand. but seriously it'd probably be pretty bad if i lost every copy of work in my portfolio.
DVDs/Videos
What do you have on your computer that you could not live without, if you lost it?
My Tour Albums and Entire collection of James bond Movies
I would HATE to lose precious photos!
What do you have on your computer that you could not live without, if you lost it?
My personal photos, and some work files…
Most of my work and just about anything I can scan or get in native digital format (tax returns, official docs, etc…) is on an external HDD as well as on the storage HDD in my PC. I've also got all my family pics and videos there, as well as anything I've actually bought on-line that requires a receipt or email proof of purchase, including software downloads.
Everything is on my backup disk.
It would take months for me to reload my CDs onto a new hard drive.
Pictures and I'm a graduate student so data, definitely data from my research projects. I also do have that humongous library of legal MP3s….
I currently have my computer automatically backup my data to an internal harddrive. However there is some data that is too big to include in this backup.
I just bought a HD camcorder (Canon HF100). I bought it because I just became a new daddy and wanted to capture every waking moment of my daughter (in glorious high definition of course
I'm currently storing the video files on my hard drive but I have no way of backing up the files because my backup media is too small, so I need a drive like this Seagate drive to store all these memories. I'd be devastated if any of these video files were lost, especially the first video of my daughter, the video of her birth. Winning this hard drive would make me feel rest assured because I would finally be able to backup these files.
My biggest concern would be photos. I have thousands of them from over the years and both me and my wife would be devastated if we lost them. On top of that, my wife is pregnant and expecting in June, so I know at that time the camera is going to be snapping constantly and I'll probably start using my camcorder a lot more. Too many memories to leave it to chance.
I couldn't live without old family photos. I don't have hard copies.
my family videos
Family pictures.
"What do you have on your computer that you could not live without, if you lost it?"
6GB of creative writing projects: I am a freelance writer and aspiring novelist. Over the years, I have written and researched a lot of stuff that I go back to from time to time for new projects.
100GB of scanned magazines: From Writer's Digest to Muscle and Fitness, I have about 7 years worth of publications I subscribe to archived.
150GB of family pics and movies: over the years, my family amassed quite a bit of pics and movies from family functions. Some relatives are no longer with us, but we can visit them though movies, especially during the holidays. Most things are replaceable, but not the moments you share with family.
+100GB of music: Music encompasses my life daily. From classical music to relax at night to hard rock and rap when I work out, I would be fat and unproductive without my tunes!
Thousand of pictures and videos & video projects. I try to keep everything backed up on discs, but having an external HD would make that so much easier to do (and therefore to do regularly).
All of my class notes (written in OneNote).
Photos , music and data about my business
Family Photo and Videos
MP3 collection
I would be devastated if I lost my digital photos.
pictures of my kids,
My family photos! Now that they're digital, I have no hard copies.
I have years of photos, games, movies and music, not to mention my client’s projects.If I lost any of these on my Mac, I’d be really upset.
The thing I could least afford to lose would be all my photos.
losing pretty much anything on my computer would be fairly devastating. my music is about 95% digital, 4.5% vinyl and about .5% on cds, so if i lost that i would be losing about $5000 worth of music. my photos are rather priceless as they could never be recreated and i make a majority of my money through that. and all my work and school docs are pretty priceless too. and who could live without enigmo? thats one app i couldnt live without.
The data of my email client. If i lose almost anything else i can recover through the emails, but hopefully that will never happen.
My photos, music and school work.
I would be devastated if i lost the photos of memories with my friends and family. those are things you just cant go and download back. my computer crashed a few years ago so i did end up losing precious photos. i think it got messed up b/c of a virus or something.
We currently back up our website on our share drive but we need to back everything up in a different way. This would help uur not for proffit website!!
Everything!
family Pictures, Music, personal information and data
Definately photos and music.
I work as a freelance web content writer, so I have a lot of important work files on my computer. I would be upset if I lost thought, but horrified if I lost the pictures of my daughter that are saved.
I have all my mp3's, and all my artwork (I'm a graphic artist) backed up on my hard drive. That's my life! Lose that, and yeah…
I have all my artwork (I'm a graphic designer), and all my music. Both are my life. I lose that, and there's no point in living!
I'd be sad if I lost my pictures.
Pictures. You can never replace little moments caught in photos
My pictures, the pictures of my kids could never be replaced ….
My most important files are my home video files of my family. It takes too many DVDs to store the data and too much time to make multiple copies of the DVD movie format. Also the irreplaceable digital pictures of friends and family. Thank you.
I would hate to lose our vacation photos.
I currently doesn't have a backup media except some cd's and dvd's. I have many songs and movies in my HDD which i collected from many sources spending lots of time and money. I can't afford to lose it. It would be very helpful to get the seagate backup hard disk.
Hope i will win
The most important and valuable datas for me in my computer are my family photos and my movie collection , For which i had taken a lot of time and money to collect them .I was having the segate external hdd with it would have helped me to prevent my data loss three times .
May God help me to win this marvelous gift .
God help me and you .
I think that I would not be able to live without several things if they were lost. One. Digital photos. Two. Music collection. And Three. Saved, not-yet-turned-in school work. If I ever lose those things again (and I have in the past), I would kick myself. Seriously.
I lost my resume (just finished updating it, and hadn’t sent it out yet) along with a bunch of photos of my best friends wedding after a power outage fried my power supply, which then took out my hard drive. It was a little disappointing. Now, I keep all of my pictures and important documents on my hard drive as well as thumb drives. This would go a long ways toward solving the problem of trying to figure out what files are on what thumb drive. I could put it all in one place.
I produce electronic music, and although I have backups, to lose the original multitrack files of the songs I produce or remix for other artist would be catastrophic.
I would hate to lose all the pictures I have saved on my computer!
I would be devastated if I lost the pictures of my puppies as babies… sappy yes, but it's true
My huge software & game collection…
The one thing I cannot live without are e-Books and Microsoft Products; I like to read articles; books; and tutorials. If I lost the data, I would be devastated and it time consuming to restore the data.
I would hate to lose pictures
my husband's original music!
E-mail archives, photo library, whatever research paper I'm working on at the moment…
My bookmarks, photos of my children, work files! Just about everythin on my computer.
All of conversations with my gf… and all the photo too.
I could not live without all of my music, photos, and videos.
I would freak if I ever lost the 30gb of mp3s I've accumulated over the past few years.
700G+ of photos…
my pictures my music and videos
Photographs. Especially ones I've edited. I haven't done a good job or organizing them or backing them up. I keep telling myself once they are all categorized I will back them up then. I know it doesn't make any sense.
photos, music, and movies
Nothing I only need air (oxygen), food and water to live.
Now there some stuff that would make my live harder if I lost them. For example, in the middle of a semester it would be my school notes whenever I'm not at school it would be my pictures I have thousands and thousands of them.
my childrens pictures, school work I have done, customers information…
I would be lost without my pictures especially of my boys.
My email archive
Little things like documents, pictures, videos and etc which has been piling up over more than 10 years. Its all priceless to me.
Personal pictures and the documents (mostly translations) that I have done.
All the pictures of my sons first year.
All my photos.
I would hate to lose the pictures of my family
my music and photos
My pics
Battery backup so I can save my work if the power goes out.
I have schoolwork mainly, but music and movies as well.
I would be devastated if I loose my hard drive with all the work and photos from vacations.
emails.
My pictures and music along with personal data. I back these up to CD on occasion.
My music collection, as i am a DJ, without it, i am nothing… unfortunately, i have no backup for it
I would be devastated if I lost the pictures of my family!
I would not want to lose photos or job related documents
It would definitely be my music and photos. I have pictures from London, as well as lots of pics of my puppies and familiy and friends.
My work documents.
roboform
my client invoices
My music library is my most prized possession.Can't comprehend losing it.
Nothing, I'm living in the cloud! I do live on Google Reader though.
"live without"? Life would go on, just like it did that other time. (I see a mental block in my nugg'n where something like that data lost happen before.)
Eek. I can see my digital photos, bookmarks/html pages, notes, applications, plus mp3s of various kinds NEED to be backed up. Backed up now… Do it. Backup now…
–D.Y. in backupless in NS
I would hate to lose all of my important documents the most. I once had a hard drive crash that cost me years of photo’s that i was never able to recover, so i back-up regularly to dvd;s, Winning this would make backing up much faster and simpler.
For me, it has to be my music collection
For me it has to be my music collection
Family pictures
Family videos
and the various apps I have installed (some purchased, some freeware)
I have [almost] everything backed up somewhere, but the problem would be getting it all back on my PC. I have CDs, DVDs, and some pictures on-line.
I was just thinking that I don't have all my WM stuff backed up. It is just on the internal HD of my home computer. And, I just have a small (160GB) external HD that is pretty full.
Photo's of my Grandma that passed a few years ago, there all on this computer.
My resume and cover letters.
I am losing my job January 1st and I have a lot of files I need backed up. Plain and simple. Merry Christmas everybody! Congrats to whoever wins!
Photos, bookmarks and program configurations. It would take so much time to configure all the programs (browser, e-mail client, IM, file manager, dock, …) again back to my liking.
For me the only loss that would be devasting are personal photos and saved personal/family emails. Work stuff can always be replicated.
My photos! And I really need to print them out, too. But not in the budget at the moment . . .
My pictures. I have alot of pictures I hav,nt made copies of and after running across this contest I think I better make copies. Thanks for reminding me.
I would hate to lose my pictures. I've already suffered one loss in a hard drive failure.
i'd be lost w/o my pix, music and the internet
links to all my 'favorites'
itunes – music and videos
could not live without the ON/OFF switch!
It would probly be the photos I have on here that I would not want to lose the most.
Excel spread sheets
Pictures and music
txhottie_86 at yahoo dot com
I already lost everything when I dropped my computer on the floor last January. Trust me, I'm still not over it.
I need something like this badly. Hate losing stuff I am working on!
ardy22 at earthlink.net
All my school documents. I'm a teacher and I lost many of my documents when our tech guy upgraded without letting me know. Now I use my personal computer for all my documents and need a backup system.
I would not be able to live without all the school work i have saved on my hard drive.
Photos of my family.
My video files, totally a huge part of my life. Also any of the papers I happen to be working on at the time!
As a lecturer of finance, the most important data for me are the lecture slides, problem sets, quiz questions and their solutions, grades of my former students (in case they request me for a recommendation later). Equally critical for me are video recordings of lectures offered both by me and the faculty that I invite for guest lectures. Losing these will definitely kill me. While losing the many sweet memories lying in my hard-disk in the form of images and videos will break my heart, they won't kill me.
I am however not careless; just that my plan is very ad-hoc and decentralized. My lecture slides, problem sets and grade-sheets are archived at the end of every course and mailed to my gmail account (and labeled appropriately for quick retrieval). Since uploading video lectures takes time (plus, web-storage isn't cheap!) and since they occupy too much of my precious disk space, I just cut CDs and hope that they don't get scratched from multiple readings.
My pictures. I scanned every picture from my albums and would be devastated to lose them.
What do you have on your computer that you could not live without, if you lost it?
I'm trying to put as much of my important data in the cloud as possible, but some stuff still have its only home on my computer, and if lost, I would be absolutely devastated. All of my 15 years of genealogy research is stored on my computer…that's a lot of time & effort that would be lost if the hard drive goes bad.
You know, I should back that stuff up! That Microsoft Skydrive thingy may be the ticket…or/and these seagate drives.
I have some work documents and some family photos and graphic designs that I would not want to lose.
"What do you have on your computer that you could not live without, if you lost it?"
I'm a journalist, so if I lost my word documents, it'd be a disaster!
This would be an amazing thing to win, because I already plan to buy one. I have been woefully negligent in backing up my data, and I don't have a very good method of doing so (am I the only one still burning CDs? UGH!). This would also help my boyfriend, because while he has been much more thorough and careful about his backups, he could use some more space as well. This would be such a wonderful thing for our household. Thank you for the most generous giveaway!
I would be devastated if I lost my photos. Somehow, I could muddle through without my business' documents or my school records or my audio files, but the photos are only located on my computer, so it would be tragic if I lost them.
I can not live out my game saves. If I lost them, I would have to start over on each game. Some games I spent more than 100 hours playing!
I don't think there is anything on my computer I could live without. I would deal with it, since you can't change the past. However… I would be pretty upset if I lost my home directory. It has happened before and was such a major pain. I keep logs, pictures, code, sheet music, configuration files, homework and basically everything else in there. I would be preetttty upset.
I would just die if I lost all of my photos, especially ones of my parent's 50th wedding anniversary. Those can never be replaced!!
As a designers I keep the digital versions of my portfolio on my computer and would have a hard time showing my work if i ever (knock on wood) need a new job
pics of my kids
all my finanical records, family photos.
My research information.
All my home financial records, pictures, music, etc.
~ 3000 photos, and yes they are backed up, but I have to do it over a network, sure would be nice to just plug and copy….
All my genealogy files and pictures which I have spent hours and hours on.
Family pictures!!
Photos and music, and of course, photos. And don't forget music. And then, there are photos….
I would be heartbroken beyond belief if I lost my photos from my computer. Everything else would be maddening to lose but the photos are the only things I would probably actually cry about.
All my music and programs. It would be a pitty if I loose all my school work and pictures. I could barely manage. I'm pretty sure that in the future I would miss them very much though
I have lots of pictures that I would hate to lose
music
photos, and music.
My pictures – thousands of pictures!!
cjnedrow@gmail.com
My email & my email friends
My little girl being born and pictures of her…
It would be awful to lost my pictures, music, and graphic/web design work documents. Please count me in and thanks for the contest!
codisweepstakes at gmail dot com
Pictures of the kids.
I could probably live without my music (most of it is on CD, the rest purchased from online retailers so it wouldn't be a hassle), but I could not live without my precious family photos and also my web and software development work that I currently have stored.
Thanks for the opportunity to win this awesome prize!
Steven
I would hate to lose my mp3s. My son lost his and is in turmoil.
I store important communications on my computer as well as photos that would be devastating to lose. Thank so very much for this FreeAgent giveaway!
I've tried to save everything really important to external media but I'm sure there would be something that would really devastate me if I lost it.
It's very similar to moving from one house, to another, to another, to another — I have miscellaneous debris which dates back five or six computers and across 25 years — photos, song clips, etc… More recently, research links and reference material covering a four-year BsEE worth of classes. Links to old friends in different parts of the country, and old projects that I may get called to help support some year… But the first several years of photos of my wife and family — THOSE I would miss.
We have a huge clump of graphics, text, pictures, etc, from when we were putting together an album as a part of the adoption process — so Family History would probably be the simple descriptor, as if there is ANYthing simple about "Family History", in reality…
Family pictures would be the hardest to replace. Plus financial info.
I have started a bookkeeping business and I really need my client's data.
I'm a graphic designer, so I have a lot of work I would really really kill myself if I lost!
i have lost all my pictures that i had saved still i dont backup dont know how to
My pictures of the family are the most cherished thing on my computer. I make sure I back them up regularly on DVDS, but this would really be great to have much more data in one place. Thanks for the great giveaway.
I would be so upset if I lost the Pictues on my Computer,
documents, contact lists, proprietary code, music, pictures… you name it, I'd be lost without it!
Without question, my music.
Pictures of my kids growing up. Irreplaceable. Priceless. I would be crushed if they were lost.
I would have to say my financial data or my music – I use both a lot!
Pictures of my children
I'd be really sad to lose photos and contact info stuff.
bloggerprofilepage@michmedia.com
I have pictures that I would be devastated if I lost!
i couldnt live without my world of warcraft program
I use my laptop to take minutes for several nonprofit Boards I serve on. Losing those minutes would be devastating, so I immediately copy them to a flash drive after a meeting finishes, then transfer the files from there to my desktop computer at home. Yes, I’ve lost files before, usually when a hard drive crashed, but the most recent instance was a bad OS patch, and my latest backup to an external HD was bad. I recovered some of my files from an earlier backup, but lost a lot of historical copies of content from websites I had built, and a lot of word processing documents.
All my family pictures, movies, Photoshop work, mp3s, would go down the drain.
Music, and those cookies that allow me to enter websites faster…
I am a self-employed photographer. My old computer crashed before I was able to back up 5 clients photos plus some personal photos. I was just sick about it. I still get upset thinking about it! Now I download the photos and copy to cd’s immediately (which is VERY time consuming to say the least). I really must get an external hard drive to back up to save myself time and trouble. This is an awesome contest. Thanks!
Ther is nothing that I couldn't live without but there are family pictures that I would hate to lose.
Humm, let's see… emails? Nope, backed up on-line. pics? Nope, on DVDs. Anything important is backed up somewhere else and there isn't really anything that I couldn't live without. Having said all that, I'd love to win the prize. Thanks for the contest.
Thanks for the giveaway…I have tons of old family photos scanned into my computer as well as some important docs; about half of these are burned onto CD/DVD's but I really should use a more efficient backup solution before a hard drive disaster strikes.
I have my family photos on my computer, some of which are very, very old for geneology research so if I lose them, I'd be sooo upset. I can't live without them if I lose them because it's a big part of my research
adamnsarahsmall@yahoo.com
I could live without my music, school work, finances, etc.
Definitely my photographs.
All the files for my website…and, no, I have not backed them up to an external.
My 13 yr. old daughter has written over a hundred stories, and plays and things like that. Since our computer is an oldie, and NOT a goodie, I feel like I should print them all out to make sure I have them, but it would fill a library, and (surprise!) my little one broke the printer by putting change in it. (Note to self: buy toy cash register for little one…)
MY PICTURES & MUSIC… and of course all of my documents
I don't want to lose photos of my really cute girlfriend, I know she will dump me one day. I would hate to lose any proof that I actually had a girlfriend, and she didn't look like Rosie O'donnell either.
I would be devastated if I lost all of family pics.
Well, I have sooo many pictures, music, home videos, essays which I would cry if I lost.
I currently do not have a backup, and this would be nice.
I would hate to loos my pictures
All of my music and historical documents.
My work files
I have 4 kids and thousands of pictures of each of them that I'd hate to lose because of my, well, currently inferior backup strategy.
Absolutely it would have to be my photographs…specifically the precious ones of my granddaughters!
my pictures, I studied abroad last semester in Germany taking almost 10,000 pictures. If I lost the pictures from the 14 trips to 34 different cities all over europe, I would be devastated.
Sign me up, please.
SEAGATE DRIVES HAVE SERVED ME VERY WELL!!!!
I would hate to lose my genealogy research and multimedia files that has taken me years to accumulate.
I could not live without my pictures.
They have so many memories and I already lost them once before. =/
I'm a writer and I have several years' worth of manuscripts in progress, as well as research materials that I've collected from sources no longer available. I would be devastated to lose all of that!! Right now my only "backup" plan is to email critical files to myself to a web email account and I leave them there. That's clunky and certainly no guarantee of safety. Winning this would provide me with the means to safely backup my data. I need this!!
family pics are the most important to me
I'd be lost if the contact information for my friends & family disappeared from my Address Book. For me, those e-mail addresses and phone numbers are priceless!
I have my daughter's baby pictures and various videos that we have taken of her over her first year of life. I would be crushed if we lost these.
my pregnancy photos, while I was in labor, the first time i looked into my sons eyes. All these pictures are on my hard drive and if I was to ever loose them I would go crazy!!! I still will have the emotion but pictures say 1,000 words.
We recently enjoyed the birth of our 9th grandchild, Mason, and I have all his baby pics on my main drive…the only drive I own. I really, really need a back up drive. I am totally disabled so buying one is not an alternative…unless, my social security wage increase this year is 10% instead of the usual 1 or 2%…LOL…that's not laugh out loud, it's Lots of Luck!
Yours in Christ, friendship and Love…
Hipster
I couldn't live without my school work, music, pictures, my writing projects, etc.
Research papers!
the internet! i need it to look at stuff!
Basically, all my digital photos! It would be so awful to lose them!
Photos of my Wedding.
It would be terrible to lose my family history research. I just don't know what I'd do if all my hard work and data were lost…
My website.
I have a lot fo music on here that I would hate to lose.
What do you have on your computer that you could not live without, if you lost it? my families pictures!
ty 4 the awesome giveaway and entry!:)
There is nothing on my computer that is so important that I could not live without it. Of course, there are some things that I would really miss, but nothing I have on the computer is that important.
My itunes. If I lost it it would take forever to get it back.
I back up my photos, music…on dvds.
Tough call… I think my music collection. But loosing all my documents and work (i'm a sysadmin) would cripple me. I lost alot of my tools and work about 3yrs ago. 40gb of all my old projects and contract work. Gone to the great bit bucket in the sky.
I still dont backup :-/ I've been meaning to get a pair of high capacity drives and mirroring them…. maybe in the new year.
HI, I have am a high school student and I have a lot of homework that I put on my computer. If it was to crash I would loose all of it.
I have a number of things on my PC that I couldn't live without. A lot of music files and a number of work documents but mostly customized databases that I've developed for clients.
All of my digital artwork that I created using fractals. All of my original photographic projects. All of my music and videos and lastly all my financial information. I would so love to have this FreeAgent Desk 1TB or 500GB FreeAgent Go for Mac. It would give me such peace of mind to know I am into the 21st century backing up my data the right way! Thank you so much for the opportunity to enter. Happy Holidays!
Music. That's it. All of my photos are online but my music, some of which I've made, I just couldn't live without.
Lots of photos not backed up yet. I better do it now!
I cannot afford to lose my bookmarks and my music. Too rare and valuable!
Turbo sweeps
I had a major harddrive crash on my PC earlier this year. I lost a lot of tems that can never be replaced like pictures of my kids. I have so many photos and so much music that I worry about it happening again. I've tried burning my photos to CD, but it's kind of a hassle, so I don't do it as frequently as I should. My music isn't really backed up at all at right now. I know – sad.
I would be heartbroken if I lost my family photos. I have some scanned and re-touched old photos, as well as more recent pics that only exist in digital form. They are very special to me, especially since my dad died last year.
Digital photos and music!
My digital photos and music!
My music! If my computer crashed and lost my music, I think I would crash too….
I have tons of programs on my computer, many of which I use for specific purposes, any tracking them all down and downloading them, and going through the installation process with the CDs I have would be quite the task. Along with the multitude of photos that I have stored on my comptuer. If they were lost I'd have no way to recover those pictures.
I am in school and my APA Style Guide Software is valuable to me.
Scans of children's art work we haven't decided what to do with yet, but would be sad to lose them.
My itunes.
My "outside the box" ideas that I have been writing down for years.
Photos, music, work documents, saved favorites/passwords.
I would be lost wihout my Roboform!
I would be devastated if I lost the website files that haven''t been uploaded online or backed up anywhere. All of that design and programming work to be redone…
Probably all of my bookmarks and photos. My essays, as well. Love my essays!!!
My photos.
My Bookmarks for sure, ty!
Photos and videos…I would be heartbroken if they were lost!
family pics
I have pictures on my computer that are very important to me. I wouldn't know what to do if I lost them.
That's easy! The thing I would be devastated if I lost would be the novel I have been pouring myself into trying to get it publishable. I've been having to email it to myself in order to use the server as backup because my jump stick went missing and my portable hard drive died of old age. Please don't let this future best-selling author down! If I win, I'll even give you a shout-out in my acknowledgments.
I could not live without my train simulator and all of my pictures (children,family,trains,etc.).
I couldnt live with out my computer