Allow specification of disk space unit

Description

At present the GUI auto-selects the disk space unit used for each dataset and does not align the numbers on the decimal point which makes it difficult to quickly see how much and where space is being used/available:

Pool1 = 5.00 TiB
Dataset1 = 350.00 GiB
Dataset2 = 3.25 TiB
Dataset3 = 4.50 MiB

It would be nice to have the option of specifying the unit to be used, lock that unit across a dataset or even an entire pool, and align on the decimal point to make it easier to see where space is being used:

Pool1 = 5000.000 GiB
Dataset1 = 350.000 GiB
Dataset2 = 3250.000 GiB
Dataset3 = 0.005 GiB

Using this example, it would be very quick and easy to see that Dataset2 is occupying most of the space because the numbers are all displayed using the same unit and the numbers are all aligned on the decimal point.

There may be other places in the GUI where this sort of thing would be applicable, but this particular one would be very helpful.

Problem/Justification

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Impact

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Katalon Manual Tests (BETA)

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Bug Clerk January 26, 2024 at 4:17 PM

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Ievgen Stepanovych January 26, 2024 at 4:17 PM

Thank you for reporting the issue.
Overall we decided that benefits of being able to select how to you want numbers formatted would not be worth the downsides of adding an option (more UI burden for the option, maintainability).