Saving my Skyrim mods

[Storms of Superior]

I'm about to reinstall my operating system (yes, again). It seems that much of the OS is on the fritz again. Enough of that.

 

I have my downloads folder compressing into a 7zip archive right now. The real problem is that it will be 145gb when it finishes compressing. Is there a way to transfer a file that big without paying for a service like Dropbox?

[Mister X]

External drive wih USB 3 or eSATA port? Today you can get one of those with 1TB for 30-50€.

 

And I think your PC should at least have one of those ports.

[Storms of Superior]

What currency is that? I use the US dollar.

 

EDIT: never mind. I see it's the Euro.

[Varithina]

For that size I would say external hd is the only way, uploading it would no doubt be a pain just for the size, then of course having to download it again, your other option of course is run a multi hard drive with just your os and bits and pieces on one drive and the rest on the other, making a reinstall much easier.

 

Even if you don't have usb/esata, you can just open your case up and plug the drive in using normal cables, messy but it will work.

 

I don't think I have ran less the 4 drives in any pc of mine for years now, my current set up is for 5 2Tb drives, with the steam install being on a drive by itself.  Considering 2tb drives are about £70ish at present I think, having more than one is a good investment.

 

My teacher at college though having only one drive in a pc was a waste of time, his comments were along the lines of would you have a filing cabinet for all you stuff with only 1 drawer? Well that was when he was explaining to people who were not too computer literate, when explaining what a hard drive was.

[Storms of Superior]

I've had a external hard drive connected for several hours now. Thanks.