IMHO We should keep a running tab of how much data has been protected with our VPN and keep updating it sorta like a high score. The idea is to compare how much data we've protected to larger and larger units of data as the amount of data that goes through gets bigger.
3.5" Floppy Disk: 1.44MB
CD: 700 MB
DVD: 9.4 GB
Bluray: 50GB
Hard Drive: 2 TB
So if like 10 TB passed through the VPN we'd say 10 TB has been protected. That is the equivalent of 5 Hard Drives, X BluRays, Y DVDs, Z CDs an A 3.5" floppies.
As we get bigger and bigger we can use more esoteric units like this is how muh data your DNA could hold or this much data is generated by this particle accellerator per second up to and including how much the internet is estimated to be. Our goal should be to be able to claim 'we've protected 1 internet worth of data' someday ;)
Concerned Citizen wrote:
For additional flavour if you wanted:
4.7GB DVD, 9.4 Dual-Layer DVD, who else remember 750MB Zip disks? :P
Also LTO (Linear Tape Open AKA Ultrium tape version 1 through 8)
100 GB 200 GB 400 GB 800 GB 1.5 TB[7] 2.5 TB[8] 6.4 TB[6] 12.8 TB[6]
And then you could always throw in some server Jargon, such as a JBOD or a MAID, based on a minimum number of disks used to create such arrays. Throw in a SAN rated at around 100TB...
But perhaps I let my geek run away with me.