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NOW CLOSED: 15 Days of Holiday Giveaways: 500 GB Toshiba External Drive

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External Hard Drive

This giveaways is part of a series of many to come in the 15 Days of Holiday Giveaways at Bargain Briana!

If you are looking for a gift idea for someone who takes many digital photos or has other important memories and documents to store, this is a wonderful holiday gift idea! If you take any digital pictures, having a back up system in place is a must have. I know we all say, it won't happen to use or we will back up next time. I've lost pictures due to a hard drive crash two times now and I don't think I've learned my lesson yet! Toshiba has a solution for you! They make backing up your hard drive simple with their portable hard drive and back up software. With up to 640 GB of storage, you can store all of your digital photos, music, movies, and other documents. 640 GB equals approximately 182,000 digital photos, 168,000 digital music files, or 520 downloaded digital movies. The Toshiba Portable Hard Drive is compatible with Windows and Mac. If you are a Windows users, the portable hard drive features a complete system back up. All you do is plug in your drive via USB, load the software, and enjoy peace of mind knowing your important memories and documents are protected. The software will run in the background and automatically save them to your external drive.  Mac users can still enjoy back ups by installing the software and one click back up. They are also available in stylish colors such as liquid blue, komodo green, rocket red, and vivid white! Be sure to check out the Bargain Briana Holiday Gift Guide for more fantastic and unique holiday gift ideas! This list will be updated throughout the coming weeks so check back for ideas and coupon codes.

Entry Methods

Prize: 500 GB Toshiba External Drive formatted for Windows You can enter up to 5 times with the following methods: 1. Leave a comment on what memories you need to back up. Have you ever lost important memories from a computer crash? 2. Become a fan of Bargain Briana on Facebook. 3. Tweet the following on Twitter:

Don't lose those important memories due to a computer crash! Win a Toshiba Ext. Hard Drive.  http://bit.ly/7R3hzV @bargainbriana

4. Subscribe to my free newsletter via email or RSS. You must confirm your email subscription for it to be a valid entry. If you are already a subscriber, leave a comment letting me know you are already subscribed. 5. Place BargainBriana.com on your blogroll or place the Bargain Briana button on your sidebar. Please leave a comment for each additional entry. Ends around 12/14/2009 at 11:59 EST. Winner, chose by random.org will be announced on the Giveaway Winners Page. Be sure bargainbriana@gmail.com is in your safe sender list as you don't want to miss the email if you are the chosen winner. If winner doesn't respond to my email within 48 hours, I will pick another winner. U.S. Entries only.

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This giveaway was sponsored by Toshiba Storage Devices. Post was written 100% by me and was not edited by the sponsor. Read more on my Disclosure Policy.

Comments

  1. I am an email subscriber.  If it's not too late I'd like to enter the drawing for the Toshiba external hard drive.  I have lost pictures several years ago when my computer would not even start up.  I was devastated.  Most pictures were of my newborn grandson.

  3. My mother is the queen of photo taking. I would like to scan these so that they can be preserved for the future. Thanks

  5. I really need to back up my pictures! I have lost information, once I lost a data base that I had created for the advancement records for my son’s Boy Scout Troop. I had to spend hours recreating it. No Fun!

  8. I want to backup my daughter’s photos from her birth (precious one), now she is 20 months old.

  9. I have a ton of family photos that I would love to save on this product so I could guarantee that they are safe. We have had a lot of close calls with our family photos.

  14. I’ve got so many pictures and music files I need to back up…I’d just hate to lose them!!

  23. We apparently need to back up our computers. I had my PALM backed up on our hard drive on our computer. When that crashed, I lost everything on my PALM :( Very sad day.

    Thanks for the opportunity.

  31. When we got our first digital camera we had so much fun taking pictures of ourselves, our pets, our home…everything. They were all there on the computer. The computer crashed. All gone. Now we seem to never take pictures anymore – perhaps because of this loss, I don’t know.

  36. My mother passed away last May and I would hate to lose all the photos of her that are on my computer!

  40. I have lost years worth of photos and documents. I had my hard drive crash and the techs could not get it to do anything at all. I still have the hard drive in a ziplock bag hoping one day I will be able to afford the more than $600.00 it would take to try to retrieve what is on there. But even for that price, there are no guarantees they would be able to get anything off of it. Backing up is SO important and I learned that the hard way.

  43. Back in 2004, our hard drive completely crashed and nothing was able to be recovered. We lost all of our photos and info that was on the PC and that amounted to over 2 years worth. It was a nightmare! We back everything up now!

  49. We’ve been fortunate to never lose any of our precious memories. We take alot of pictures of our 3 kids, so we would love to win a Toshiba External Drive. Thanks!

  51. Yes, our old computer is in the shop right now because of hard drive failure. I have lost a bunch of pictures from birthdays to weddings to concerts. I would love to back up all my current pictures. Thanks for the giveaway.

  55. I really need and want this because i had a traumatic childhood and have taught myself not to remember things…now that i want to remember things i can’t…so i try to remember by taking pictures of everything…i have two sons and just got married…i got at least 10,000 pictures on disks and memorycards …they are everywhere…i could really use it thank you

  58. I have a 4 month old daughter…so I have plenty of precious pictures (and plenty more to come) that need protected. I almost lost all of my other photos to a computer crash years ago, but luckily we were able to retrieve everything. I immediately backed everything up, but I live in fear that my ex. drive will crash, so I need to back-up my back-up!

  64. I would love to back up all my daughter’s photos on an external drive. Thanks for the great giveaway!

  65. I would use this to back up all my family photos. I always worry that my hard drive will crash and all these memories will be lost. Thanks for the giveaway chance!!

  71. I have all my family history, research and TONS of old family photos. Planning to pass it along to my cousins, hopefully soon. I’d be so sorry to loose any of it. It’s backed-up, but I always worry. Haven’t had time to back up all the pix. I keep my fingers crossed!

  77. I’ve probably gone through 5 hard drive crashes since the Internets started and lost things I can’t even remember now. I’m a freak about backups now but always worry about it.
    .-= Blake K´s last blog ..M. Antoinette … She’s Still Queen of Hearts =-.

  87. Our computer crashed about 6 months ago. We felt lucky that all our photos were stored on an external harddrive, until that crashed a week later. While we were able to retrieve about 80% of the images with the help of a techy friend, I find everyday that there is some picture or song that I no longer have. It’s devasting. I’d love to have a back-up for my back-up, since it’s obvious that everything can go wrong in one fell swoop.

  89. I would love to back up all of my nusic! We had a computer crash and lost our entire iTunes catalog. :(

  94. I once lost an entire hard drive filled with un-backed up photos. I still cringe at the thought.
    .-= Jenna´s last blog ..halfbluesky: My brain hurts. I think I’m too old for sleepovers. #kmartbls =-.

  95. I would love to win one of these. My laptop’s recent hard drive crashed on me. I lost all the pictures from our vacations from the last few years!
    .-= asithi´s last blog ..Online Health Record and Weight Bumps =-.

  96. I am a subscriber and I love your site. Hope I win, this is what my son wanted for Christmas!!!

  97. I lost a whole series of pictures I had taken of 3 little baby robins that had their nest right outside my kitchen window!

  99. I really need to back up all my pictures of the kids when they were babies. I didn’t print them and I would be so upset if I lost them.

  100. When I found out that I was pregnant, I went out and invested in a great Digital SLR camera. Since then I have taken photos of everything! I would love to be able to have a portable storage of all these photographs.

  103. As a professional phototgrapher, external hard drives are a way of life for me. My current one is getting very close to being full, so I’d love to win another one!

  110. If I lost my 10K pictures from all my vacations and holidays it would be just tragic. An even more tragic would be to loose all my family history research.

  113. I am actually getting a new Toshiba laptop for Christmas because my husband thinks I “bog” ours down too much….so this would be perfect to start putting all “my treasures” on my own Toshiba..

  117. I am an avid genealogist. I keep copies of all old pictures of my ancestors, a huge file of my family tree, and of course of current pictures of my kids and family. The day I lost my hard drive, I was devastated! No only years of research, but tons of money and memories down the drain!

  129. Ever since getting a Canon digital camera for Christmas last year, I have been super paranoid about losing my pics to a computer crash. About two years ago, my work laptop crashed — and I lost EVERYTHING that I had created and researched during 4 years of hard work! Thanks so much for this giveaway!

  140. I would back up my whole computer. I’ve only lost a portion of my emails in the past, but I came very close once to losing photos from my daughter’s birth to 8 months. That was enough to put backing up on my weekly to do list!

  143. I wrote my grown son a story that he could share with his children, about our “Charlie Brown” tree. I was a single parent at the time with not much money for Christmas. I wrote it on the computer, and lost it when my hard drive crashed. Also about 2 yrs of pictures. It is heart breaking to have the memories taken from you in that manner.

  150. I am an avid scrapbooker and take tons of pictures.
    Now that they’re all digital, I really need a back up of them just in case!

  152. I’ve been a fan for a while but now it’s official – I’m a fan on Facebook!
    The Toshiba Portable Hard Drive would go so well with my Toshiba Laptop!

  154. I used to use back-up all the time at work, after losing several months worth of files! But I don’t have any back up on my own home computer. I would love to safeuard the hundreds of photos of my 6 grandsons!

  157. I need to backup all the pictures of my girls first years. I’ve already lost the pictures of the birth of my 2nd daughter, I can’t bear to lose any more

  158. Please enter me – I am also one of those people that keeps saying “I will/need to do this” and I would hate to loose my wedding pictures!!! Plus w/ twins on the way…….. you get the ‘picture’!

  159. I am in dire need of an external hard drive. This would be fantastic. I have pictures of my deceased daughter on my computer that would be gone forever without backing them up. I just haven’t had the extra money to invest in one.

  164. I still have my vacation pictures on camera because my computer aleady crashed once and I am afraid to put more memories on there!

  168. This would be awesome to win for all our pictures! Our computer practically blew up recently, and this would be great for some peace of mind!
    .-= jennifer´s last blog ..Kroger =-.

  173. I need to back up pictures of my kids. I lost all the pictures of my freshman year in college when my computer crashed!

  177. I lost every photo of my family, my sons childhood photos in a flood. Now i take backup of every photo of my children and family on my laptop. I would love to win this external hard drive and save each and every photo so that i dot loose them again. Thanks for the opportunity.

  185. We have a small external drive but the 1000’s and 1000’s of pictures and video and music are filling it up quick. This would be a great updated drive for our family.

  186. About two years ago my computer crashed and we had to have windows reinstalled which meant I lost everything I had. All of my documents and pictures were gone. I kept saying I need to get an external hard drive but yet haven’t, so this year my husband said I should really get you one of those for Christmas; however this year we just don’t have the extra money for it. I lost my job in January and trying to live on one income has been difficult. Just yesterday our main computer crashed again…I’m not sure yet if we are going to be able to salvage anything. You can imagine how I wished that I would have purchased the external hard drive a long time ago.

  187. I’ve never lost anything due to a computer crash, thank goodness, but we just got married in January, so I’d love to back up all of our pictures from our first year of marriage — the honeymoon, house renovations, getting a cat and a dog, and everything in between!
    .-= Molly´s last blog ..follow friday =-.

  192. I’m a writer and I can’t tell you how many manuscripts and essays and blog posts I have lost because of system crashes and failures!! I really need to get a backup system going now!! This would certainly help, having files saved OFF my hard drive!

  195. I have recently become interested in photography and have lots of pictures that I back up, mostly of my 4 month old daughter. I have had my computer crash before. I always save my pictures to a disk so I had those, but I did lose some documents. I would love to have this external drive as it would be so much easier to back up everything!

  196. My parents started our family over again. While we older children were building our lives, and going to college they adopted! So, I have a new baby sister and need to make sure we don’t lose any of those adorable (and blackmail-worthy) pictures before she hits high school!

  198. I would be backing up all of my pictures! I have photos for my business and of my family that I would die if I lost!

  200. I’m now a fan on Facebook!
    .-= Felicia´s last blog ..CVS Deals and Coupon Match ups for the week of {12/13} =-.

  201. We take pictures of everything and I label them by the month and years of my son’s age. We did almost loose some pictures due to a computer crash.. luckily my husband was able to save them after much work!
    .-= Felicia´s last blog ..CVS Deals and Coupon Match ups for the week of {12/13} =-.

  202. I have tons of pictures I need backed up! I’m a semi-pro photog & I’ve been backing pics up online & on dvds, but I’ve got too many dvd’s hanging around now!

  203. I need to backup all of my digital pictures and music. my husband uses the computer for college and with all of our pictures and music saved on the drive it slow’s it way down.

  204. I lost all of my kids first day of school pics when our camera was stolen.

    I’m a fan on facebook.

  205. I would love to win the external hard drive to back up all of our pictures. I recently got married and everyone keeps sending me pictures. It would be great to have them saved on something else. Just in case.

  208. I have sooo many photos on my computer that I really need to be backing up! An external hard drive seems to keep moving to the bottom of my list though.

  210. We have so many pictures of our son and videos that we need to back up. Plus we have another one on the way that this would come in handy!

  211. Our pict ures are my loved thing in our home. I would be devestated if we lost even one. Our wedding, our babies, our memories are so important!

  215. I would backup everything! I recently had an external hard drive issue and lost everything. Every photo, every document, every recipe i had been collecting for years!

  218. I have lots of favorites I’d hate to lose, especially my sweepstakes records as well as financial items.

  221. I lost several years worth of digital photos when my hard drive crashed. A talented techie managed to recover most of them, but his services were very expensive. An external hard drive for backup would really help me feel more secure.

  222. My parents both passed away and I now have all of their family photo albums. I’m in the process of scanning them all so that I can share them with my sister in Europe and my son in Virginia (and also to preserve them before they deteriorate any further or anything happens to them!) A way to back them up would be a godsend. Thanks so much for the opportunity.

  227. I haven’t ever lost anything, but I need to back up a ton of photos :) *Thanks* for the giveaway!

  230. i would love to win this, to give to my boyfriend, recently his computer crashed and he lost tons of important documents and pictures he had on it.what upset him most was losing all of his daughters wedding photos that was on it.

  231. We would back up the pics. of our 3 little ones and the new one due soon!! We have almost lost some pics. but thankfully we found them on disc and were able to put it back on the computer. My dh would love this. Thanks for the opportunity!

  233. My son is in is senior year of college and would really like one of these
    to back up his laptop. He has been able to use the same laptop for four years and is scared it will crash his final year when money is so tight.
    Thank you for having such a useful giveaway.

  237. PHOTOS! I actually had an external hard drive crash on me – making me lose all my backed up stuff! Now I try to have a back up of a back up!!

  238. I just gave birth to #2 and so backing up all of those pictures are suddenly a high priority. What a great giveaway! Thanks!

  244. Our laptop just crashed and the hard drive cannot be recovered. We lost several groups of pictures from our son’s first year. I REALLY NEED THIS!!!

  247. I subscribe!!! I’m on your site daily. Wife calls me an old grandma…I smile as that’s a great compliment ;)

  249. I have pictures and video of my 2-year-old granddaughter from the day of her birth to today. I would hate to lose any of them!

    I subscribe.

  250. My husband accidentally erased all of our photos off of our harddrive a few years ago. I lost almost all of my sons baby pictures (luckily I had some of them saved on a CD) and a lot of my daughter’s pictures as well. Ever since them, I save everything to an external hard drive!

  263. I would love this to backup tons of pictures of our family! I’ve lost data due to a hard drive crash before…not a good thing. Thanks for a great giveaway!

  264. would love to win this. take tons of pictures!!! thanks for the chance to win…. read your blog daily!!

  273. these things are great for backing up all your important files stored on your computer.

  279. DH reformatted the wrong hard drive once. Lost about 4 months worth of pictures of my daughters 1st year.
    .-= floreksa´s last blog ..I’m BACK! =-.

  286. I have a daughter and another baby on the way. Lots of pictures that need to be backed up. Thankfully we haven’t lost any yet!

  287. I need this to save my pics. I lost all mine one time and cried and cried. I have three kids and I do not want to lose ANY pics. I so hope I win this.

  293. I need to back-up my ALL of my daughter’s pictures. She was born in 2008 and I already have thousands of pics!

  294. Every picture I have made since my oldest grandson was born in 2007 is stored here at the office on my office computer. If I were to, Lord forbid, lose my job I would love almost 3 years of precious memories.

  296. This would be great for my father-in-law who does a GREAT job of capturing my 3 boys on his camera!

  299. I’d love this for my grandmother. Her computer recently crashed and we’ve encouraged her to get an external hard drive to store her pictures on. This would be perfect!

  300. I need to back up thousands of photos and digital scrapbooking kits. Yes, I have some stuff still on my old desk top that I did not back up and it will not turn back on. Hoping to get it fixed eventually.

  302. I having lots of photos that I need to back up. I haven’t lost any to a computer crash so far. :)

  303. would love love love this! we’ve lost video and pictures because of computers crashing and a theft. we’ve got an 18 mo old daughter that we wouldn’t want to miss any memories of!

  304. We’re fairly diligent about backing up our digicam photos on DVD, but we’d sure like an external drive for that also.

    I also Tweeted about this! @robodaniel
    .-= Rob O.´s last blog ..Snoopy vs. Red Baron Redux =-.

  309. I have to make sure I never lose pictures of my children during a Christmas concert. The beard my son wore was wonderful! (and itchy!)

  311. my pictures! i’ve lost a ton of stuff due to my crazy computer, most importantly my school projects when i was trying to put my portfolio together. what a pain!

  312. We lost everything a few years ago because of a computer crash… We’ve been meaning to back up our new things with a portable hard drive. This would help so much!

  315. i have so many memory cards full with pic that i wont upload to computer because last summer my computer just die and thats it!

  316. Me, me, me! I would love to win this fabulous prize. I love taking photographs and desperately need an EHD to back up all of my great memories from 2009. I have lost photos in the past; however, was fortunate enough to have only lost a few.

  317. OI so need this, it was on my blackfriday list but I ran out of money before I got to office max. I have 5 years worth of digital pictuers and now music to back up!

  319. I need to back up all the pics of my 9 month old son. Our computer crashed before and we lost all of our honeymoon pics.

  326. OMG you may have just solved my delima about what to get my husband for christmas. He was wanted one of these for our digital photos and all of his itunes songs! how perfect!

    stephanie

  329. I have pictures of our daughter’s first year of life to save and hold on to. Almost lost them last month, but my brother was able to resurrect my computer. Thanks Ron!

  331. I’m a facebook fan!!

    I would love to win this!

    I had to buy a new laptop (which was definately not part of the budget) a month ago because my cat knocked over an entire drink on my laptop…

    I lost my engagement photos plus over 2 years of photos on my computer. I also lost all the songs I had downloaded (and paid for) on iTunes… which was at least 200. I also lost my resume, papers I had written for school, my budget Excel sheet, tax info,etc. I am an aspiring writer and I started writing a novel and I didn’t have ANY of it backed up. 75 pages… gone. Lesson learned. Back everything up! And keep liquids and cats away from your laptop.

  332. I need to backup all the wedding pictures! We have them on CDs, but I’d prefer to have them on a hard drive.

  333. I would back up pictures, video’s and our “address” book I need for mailing out our annual Christmas cards!

  339. I do not want to lose the pictures of my kids, especially their birthdays and the holidays. We have been fortunate that when we did lose pictures, we had them backed up on CDs or others computers.
    .-= Danielle´s last blog ..Family Friday: Holiday Traditions =-.

  340. We have lost two different years of pictures when the CD’s we burned them on as backups went bad and they were accidentally deleted (somehow) from our hard drive. I now have no pictures of my youngest child’s first Christmas. So sad!!

  341. We too would use it to back up pictures – all pictures from my 1st son (5yr) and my soon to be 1yr old.

  342. We would totally use it to back up pictures, those are something that you just can’t get back if you loose them.

  346. I have lost information from a crashed computer. When my son was about a year old, my laptop died and was not resurrected. I lost every.single.picture on there. Now, I have pictures, video, and school work on my computer I would like to back up.
    Thanks!

  350. I have my son’s first and second year full of pictures that I would love to protect along with tons of music. I’m a freelance graphic artist, so I have some rather large art files.

    I once lost a whole year’s worth of pictures in a computer crash…ugh!
    .-= Amber´s last blog ..amber_wooten: Don’t lose those important memories due to a computer crash! Win a Toshiba Ext. Hard Drive. http://bit.ly/7R3hzV @bargainbriana =-.

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