Yeah the thing is, I would have no clue when I am putting in a game if that game needs to be burned on the hdd or can be put on an external drive..for me that is the main concern..because I am assuming that ALL games, both present and future games will be able to be backed up, but if some can be backed up on external and some cant thats an issue for me..My ps3 is only a 20 gig one, I prefer just backing up everything to an external drive, in fact right now I am researching which external drive to get(Is Seagate good?) I dont mind if it takes 20 seconds to load a game from the external drive, Im patient, it would just be great to have all of these games