It pleases me to say we're firmly planted in a new era for external SSDs. For the longest time, it was hard to recommend anything other than a 10 Gbps drive such as the (still-wonderful) Crucial X6 because that's all that most motherboards could manage. Now, however, 20 Gbps SSDs like the ADATA SD810 are widely supported, much to the benefit to us gamers.
It's not just a USB generation thing, either. It's also a value thing. USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 external SSDs such as the SD810 are now very reasonably priced, making it difficult to recommend an older drive unless you're on a strict budget or have an older PC that doesn't have a Gen 2x2 port.
