Engadget's recession antidote: win a 1.5TB Drobo!

This whole global economic crisis, and its resulting massive loss of jobs got us thinking. We here at Engadget didn't want to stand helplessly by, announcing every new round of misery without giving anything back -- so we decided to take the opportunity to spread a little positivity. We'll be handing out a new gadget every day (except for weekends) to lucky readers until we run out of stuff / companies stop sending things. Today we're serving up one of the hottest giveaways yet: a second-generation Drobo (with FireWire 800), complete with twin 750GB Western Digital hard drives. You read right -- a 1.5TB intelligent storage solution to get your life completely back in order. Read the rules below (no skimming -- we're omniscient and can tell when you've skimmed) and get commenting!

Huge thanks to Data Robotics for providing the gear!

The rules:

• Leave a comment below. Any comment will do, but if you want to share your proposal for "fixing" the world economy, that'd be sweet too.
  
• You may only enter this specific giveaway once. If you enter this giveaway more than once you'll be automatically disqualified, etc. (Yes, we have robots that thoroughly check to ensure fairness.)
• If you enter more than once, only activate one comment. This is pretty self explanatory. Just be careful and you'll be fine.
  
• Contest is open to anyone in the 50 States, 18 or older! Sorry, we don't make this rule (we hate excluding anyone), so be mad at our lawyers and contest laws if you have to be mad.
  
• Winner will be chosen randomly. The winner will receive one (1) second-gen Drobo and two (2) 750GB Western Digital hard drives. Approximate value is $675.
  
• If you are chosen, you will be notified by email. Winners must respond within three days of the end of the contest. If you do not respond within that period, another winner will be chosen.
• Entries can be submitted until Tuesday, March 24th, 11:59PM ET. Good luck!
• Full rules can be found here.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 24th 2009 2:38PM]

DROBO4ME?!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 24th 2009 2:59PM]

You think it'd be awesome, I would be a happy happy man.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 24th 2009 7:58PM]

*crosses fingers'

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 24th 2009 3:05PM]

Because my cat ate my last Drobo...

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 24th 2009 2:44PM]

I'd store all open software I develop to help spread the money for M$ pockets!

[DanH Posted Mar 24th 2009 2:45PM]

WANT.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 24th 2009 2:47PM]

yes pleasee

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 24th 2009 2:53PM]

hello

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 24th 2009 2:50PM]

just what i wanted

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 24th 2009 2:51PM]

memememe

[Lionel Posted Mar 24th 2009 2:56PM]

Cool

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 24th 2009 9:26PM]

yes

[Overclocker Posted Mar 24th 2009 2:58PM]

1.5TB of NAS goodness!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 24th 2009 3:29PM]

I've wanted one of these since they came out! Recession proof me!

[runofthemill Posted Mar 24th 2009 3:10PM]

store me.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 24th 2009 3:01PM]

this would be good.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 24th 2009 3:03PM]

Yes Please!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 24th 2009 3:09PM]

These things are very cool. Great RAID software technology. Great if you have multiple different sized drives

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 24th 2009 3:08PM]

Print a bunch of money... give everyone a lot of it... worry about the long term effects of massive inflation later. :-) Now, hand over the Drobo!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 24th 2009 4:59PM]

ok

[gnohra Posted Mar 24th 2009 3:09PM]

DROBO

[munchies Posted Mar 24th 2009 3:06PM]

I R WINNAR

[aflat Posted Mar 24th 2009 3:47PM]

yes please!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 24th 2009 3:11PM]

I elect President Drobo to store all of the toxic assets and take the burden offline...

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 24th 2009 3:14PM]

why so blue panda bear?

[pjlynn Posted Mar 24th 2009 3:15PM]

Woot!

[voltman007 Posted Mar 24th 2009 3:18PM]

math says I won't win

[matchand Posted Mar 24th 2009 4:13PM]

I want one!!

[manezinho Posted Mar 24th 2009 3:21PM]

Keep giving more cool stuff away and the recession will soon be over.

[qassoom Posted Mar 24th 2009 3:25PM]

Wow... I wonder...

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 24th 2009 3:24PM]

What recession?

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 24th 2009 3:27PM]

this would be awesome

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 24th 2009 3:27PM]

Odds are about 10,000 to 1.....those seem better then then the odds of the economy turning around anything soon.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 24th 2009 3:28PM]

Here's how I would fix the economy: give all the bailout money to the people (that's US, the ones whose taxes are being redistributed). We'll pay off our bad debts and buy stuff. And the economy would rebound quicker than you can say, "tax and spend". I wouldn't use this to fix the economy; I'd use it for my collection of tunes. Oh, and I'd love to win this.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 24th 2009 3:32PM]

pick meee plzzz x3

[el Capitan Posted Mar 24th 2009 3:29PM]

can't get enough!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 24th 2009 3:30PM]

Poor college student here! Send some technology my way =)

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 24th 2009 3:31PM]

Winning this would be awesome.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 24th 2009 3:31PM]

Wowza!

[MrNonchalant Posted Mar 24th 2009 3:34PM]

So need this.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 24th 2009 3:35PM]

I would love you for this, really.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 24th 2009 3:44PM]

yay

[dziban303 Posted Mar 24th 2009 6:04PM]

Pick me!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 24th 2009 3:39PM]

Sweet.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 24th 2009 3:44PM]

me pls

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 24th 2009 3:45PM]

Yes, Yes, Yes...thank you!!!!!!

[PattyB Posted Mar 24th 2009 3:42PM]

In need of storage!

[CheesusCrust Posted Mar 24th 2009 3:46PM]

Being first must suck

[RoachForLife Posted Mar 24th 2009 3:50PM]

Thanks!!!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 24th 2009 3:53PM]

Yes please.