Are you stuck with the lowly Core or Arcade SKU for your Xbox 360 with no hard drive? You might end up with a surprise come November 19th when the New Xbox Experience requires 128MB of space to download and run. Unless you have a 512MB memory unit, you’re screwed. Even with that, you might be up a creek with no paddle.

Fret not, my minions. Microsoft wants to help. While they recommend clearing out some of your old files to give you enough space, you can enter your Console ID and Serial Number on their website to see if you qualify for either a free 512MB memory unit or a 20GB hard drive for only $19.99. Word on the streets is the hard drives are refurbished, but for $20, you can’t really complain.

While it’s not to see Microsoft helping out some, it makes you wonder why they didn’t plan for this in the first place or take action earlier. They knew Arcade users wouldn’t have enough space for their new dashboard update, so why not start this process earlier? Either way, if you only have a Core or Arcade, you better hit them up for some storage.