Miss Your Interview or Lose Your Hard Drive? Tough Choice!

Fully 84 percent of computer users polled by Kelton Research believe that the contents of their computers are more a reflection of their personality than what you might find in their wallet.

That should come as no surprise. There is a limit to the amount of detail and data in a wallet. There is richness of detail on a PC's hard drive if you consider email, documents, calendars, contacts, web browsing history, applications and usage history, bookmarks and so forth.

Nearly 36 percent of respondents would rather be late to an important meeting than lose all of their personal files stored on their PC. That's a rational position and one might only be surprised that the percentage of respondents is not higher.

Despite the tough economy and the high unemployment rate, 20 percent of those polled would choose missing an important job interview over losing their data. Though this is a judgment call, job interviews can be rescheduled. Non-backed up data can be impossible to reconstruct.

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