Engadget's recession antidote: win a 500GB Toshiba USB 2.0 portable HDD!

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 or companies stop sending things. Today we've got an 500GB Toshiba USB 2.0 portable hard drive, complete with a swank black / white motif and a nearly unlimited amount of room for, um, whatever the heck you want. Read the rules below (no skimming -- we're omniscient and can tell when you've skimmed) and get commenting! Hooray for free stuff!

Huge thanks to Toshiba 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) 500GB Toshiba USB 2.0 portable HDD, model number HDDR500E03X. Approximate retail value is $139.99.
  
• 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 Friday, April 24th, at 11:59PM ET. Good luck!
• Full rules can be found here.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:02PM]

first?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2009 3:02PM]

Argh! If ye only pick me I'll share me pirate booty with ye!

[Unverified 2 This Time Its Perso Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:02PM]

first
fail

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:04PM]

brewhaha

[spasewalkr Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:06PM]

win peas?

[Dan Fruzzetti Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:11PM]

Thanks entirely to ridiculously overly high-resolution digital cameras taking pictures with 14 megapixels of grainy medium-quality noise, i need this much storage.

[ran Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:13PM]

Ha.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:38PM]

We all need to go back to the barter system. After I get my free hard drive, of course.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:14PM]

YES!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:18PM]

YES ME ME ME

[tomis167 Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:18PM]

yummy

[billmiller Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:17PM]

need this bad!!!

[Ghen Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:18PM]

Hopefully you unchecked the email option! :o

[rclightboy197 Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:19PM]

yummmmm

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:19PM]

I always need me some more space.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:19PM]

Dang son! You gunna eat all those beans?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:20PM]

Justice be done!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:20PM]

sweet jesus i want this

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:25PM]

pick me

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:26PM]

Ooo...Me want

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:29PM]

Word.

[MSWUDB Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:29PM]

I NEED ONE!!! WOOOT!!!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:31PM]

Yes !! pick me .. please

I need one of these for my 235,000 songs that I have on my old G4 Mac.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:31PM]

perfect for dish dvr conversion

[Overclocker Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:33PM]

Free space good!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:36PM]

win!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:34PM]

Test. Please ignore.

No, don't!

[Xtole Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:34PM]

yes please

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:36PM]

um yea

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:36PM]

Gimme that hard disk drive!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:37PM]

please?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:38PM]

I WANT!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:39PM]

Me i need one, I don't have one...yet.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2009 7:29PM]

WIn WIN WIN

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:45PM]

YAYAYA

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:42PM]

Solution to the economy?

Price freezes on oil.
Stop giving billions to failing companies, only to watch them still fail.
Give someone an awesome 500GB HDD

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:46PM]

QOOOO

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:43PM]

a

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:43PM]

I need some more storage....Pick me please! :)

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:45PM]

yup

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:45PM]

123456

[bigolsillyguy Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:45PM]

i need this

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 27th 2009 1:51PM]

yes

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:57PM]

huh?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:57PM]

pizza

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2009 12:58PM]

i want

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2009 1:00PM]

You can never have too much backup!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2009 1:25PM]

ok fine.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2009 1:04PM]

hello world.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2009 1:05PM]

I can't promise it won't have bootleg music on it within an hour if I win. Hackers might fill it up with toonz.