I kind of feel like we should be able to use scientific notation for this 300GB hardrive becomes 300 10^9 bytes or 3 10^10. 32GB or memory becomes 32 2^30, or

I kind of feel like we should be able to use scientific notation for this 300GB hardrive becomes 300 10^9 bytes or 3 10^10. 32GB or memory becomes 32 2^30, or 2^35. No ambiguity at all, and if you're spending hundreds of dollars for hardware, you should at least be able to grasp exponentiation.