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Xbox Flash Memory 8mb

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the only purpose I found for having this is NONE! XBOX has a hard drive to save everything to. Made for those who have friends with XBOX and want to trade/load/share their info with them. Everyone I know has a PS2. This serves me no purpose fro now.

There is a more compeling reason to buy a memory card...when your xbox breaks down. Because all of your achived levels and player stats are stored on the internal hard drive, if you ever need to send in your xbox for repair, there is a significant chance that they will wipe the hard disk clean and/or update the OS, or replace it with a new hard disk if that was the cause of the failure. This would result in *ALL* of your game data being lost and you would then need to re-play *all* of your games for dozens of hours just to get to where you were before the xbox broke.

So, I'm getting this memory card and doing "backups" every so often so if the xbox ever breaks, I won't loose my game data.

Many people will ask,"Why would anyone waste their hard earn money on a TINY 8MB memory card when there is a HUGE (and free) 8GB hard drive in the X-Box?" The answer comes in two parts. Firstly, if the system ever breaks down for any reason, there is a good chance that your "free" hard drive will be erased, or your memory will get corrupted (this actually does happen, it happened to me). Second of all, it is the only way to share or move important game data (I discovered the wonders of personalized data while playing HALO with a system link, which I highly recommend as being the single best gaming experience ever). Buying a thirty dollar memory card might sound a bit frivolous, but if you already payed [a lot of money] for the system, and a ridiculous amount on games an peripherals, it is a well spent insurance plan.

Many people have their reasons for buying or not buying a memory card. I had to buy one because I have more than one person in the house that plays the same games I do. And, for whatever reason, not all the games offer seperate save slots for you and someone else to save. Only one saved game on that huge hard drive? Sounds funny but some games work that way. To eliminate this problem, I purchased a memory card for the second person, and it's working out great. So don't give up on the memory card just yet. There is a purpose to everything.

I researched the lil' peice before buying it and found NO real purpose for having it other than just having something to plug in your joystick. Like the other reviewer said "Made for those who have friends with XBOXes and want to trade/load/share their info with them". I don't know anyone with an XBOX, so sharing files isn't a must for me right now.

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