The reason I don’t rely more on online services for backup is because in the event of a major data loss it would take literally weeks to download all of my backups and hard drives are so affordable. That might be excessive to some people, but I never want to be “that guy” that lost everything and shooting HD videos and RAW format images takes up a TON of hard drive space.
On a portable drive that lives in a Sentry Fire Safe in case we’re burglarized or the house burns down.I keep a copy that’s easily accessible to all of my notebooks -on one of the hard drives pictured.I keep my most precious photos and videos in at least three locations. This is a picture of most of my backup hard drives that house everything from wedding photos to the sheet music from my high school jazz band. I use a wide variety of drives from various manufacturers, but I like how the new FreeAgents look and Seagate stands behind its products with a five-year warranty. You can also enter to win one of the ten hard drive bundles at these Web sites once they post their rules: We’ll pick a random winner from all the entries received by 11:59PT on Friday December 5. Only one entry per person and please remember to leave your email address in the form,not in the body of the comment. What do you have on your notebook that you’d be devastated if you lost? Have you ever lost important data- what happened? The FreeAgentGo (non mac) is much slimmer and comes in Red, Forest Green, Sky Blue, Tuxedo Black and Silver.įor a chance to win all you need to do to win is to answer following questions in the comment form at the bottom of this article. It matches the look and feel of a MacBook.
The FreeAgent Go for Mac has FireWire 800 and USB ports comes in a silver and white design. If you win you’ll also get your choice of a 500GB FreeAgent Go or 500GB FreeAgent Go for Mac portable drive. Winners will get their choice of either a FreeAgent Desk 1TB or FreeAgent Desk for Mac 1TB. Update: While you’re here, Please enter our Black Friday Tales contest for your chance to win a Lenovo IdeaPad S10 netbook. Our friends at Seagate gave us 20 hard drives to give away and in the spirit of the Holidays we’re sharing with readers of nine top technology blogs. Backup drives aren’t the sexiest gadgets, but they can sure save you a lot of grief if when you hard drive goes bad or you lose your notebook. I can’t think of a better gift to a notebook user than a backup hard drive that doesn’t have one.