The next quality level involves flash components for the production of memory cards — such as SD ... the boundaries between USB stick and USB SSD can become blurred with high capacities.
Adding external storage to a Fire Stick makes it significantly more useful for playing media files, photos, and music.
Booting a Pi Zero from an USB stick requires that you either waste ... and I wouldn’t argue with them on that. Can you rely on an SD card even if unsafe shutdowns happen every now and then?