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When I first heard about the 250GB hard drive exclusive to certain Xbox 360 bundles I knew that it would only be a matter of time before a stand alone hard drive would make its way to store shelves, at a ridiculous price. I honestly don't know who could need a 250GB hard drive for their Xbox 360, is there really that much content available for Rock Band and Guitar Hero? So 250 might be a bit excessive, but I think it is universally accepted that 20GB is not enough space for the average gamer that has purchased only a handful of Arcade games and multiplayer map packs for games like Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. As soon as Microsoft enabled hard drive installation of games storage space soon became a necessity. It is with this perspective on the necessity of hard drive space that we now have rumors surfacing of Microsoft potentially enabling USB storage support through a dashboard update in the spring. While some of you might be leaping for the heavens in celebration, assuming this is true I am not as impressed with Microsoft.Lucky for you, there's no additional storage space required for the rest of this text.

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