Consistency would be better, whichever way was chosen (base 2 or 10). Although even with base-10 being used all around, I might still end up explaining why an

Consistency would be better, whichever way was chosen (base 2 or 10). Although even with base-10 being used all around, I might still end up explaining why an 8 billion byte file won't fit on an 8 billion byte USB key, while a disk image of the same size would because of file system overhead.