While the actual wattage difference between a 1 TB SATA drive and a 300 GB Fibre Channel drive is marginal, the cost difference on a watt-per-capacity basis is significant.

With the increasing number of modulation formats and the increasing similarity of the induced marginal distributions to a Gaussian channel, the problem is becoming more and more challenging.

The main reservoir sedimentary facies is channel fill formed by channel detention and marginal bank.