[zokier]

> This new optical standard is only about 50% faster than the now-ancient copper SATA standard of 6Gbps

you are surprised that free-space optical transfer over many(?) meters is "only" 50% faster than data transfer over <1m carefully constructed differential coax-pairs?

[Dylan16807]

Sata is pretty far from careful, the 6Gbps rating is for one pair, and that was 15 years ago.