Quote Originally Posted by Till View Post
Aliens travelling across vast interstellar distances to visit garbage gardens are sane.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_Watchtower



But, considering the crust of space junk orbiting this planet it is a garbage garden. Therefore, the aliens visiting Earth are definitely amongst the sanest beings.
so people threw a bunch of trash around and called it a park? don't we normally call those places garbage dumps? seriously that's pretty asinine and yes aliens probably do see this planet as one big garbage dump.
Quote Originally Posted by Slacker Magician View Post
It shouldn't be a problem with eSATA, not sure about USB. Make sure the drive is up to the task.
it's not esata but after giving it some thought I'm going to do a linux install on my old laptop and give it a try before I commit to it further I only use it as a backup for when my desktop is down but since I installed that new heatsink this thing hasn't had any trouble rebooting.
I know my laptop is old and under powered but it should be able to run a linux distro like the one I have ready I would try it on my old desktop but it doesn't have an hdd or disc drive plus the cpu is weaker than my laptops and I would have to use my monitor or dig out my spare and find space for it so the laptop is a better choice.