These sorts of posts come up often and I cringe every time I see dongle attached storage. An unnecessary additional failure point seems counterproductive.

I have a Raspberry Pi and I use an SD card because what I’m using it for doesn’t require anything more. If you need fast storage I believe you should buy an appropriate device and maybe petition the Foundation to add it in a future model.

Right tool for the job and all that.

I have found that the SD card tends to 'wear out' after a few years. Agreed USB is suboptimal; but it can work OK.