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I got a Sandisk Ultra Dual Drive Go 128GB for ~$15. It's fast, small, inexpensive, and does both USB-C and USB-A. Sandisk is one of the best when it comes to reliability, but I've only had it for a couple weeks (bought to replace a cheap POS), so I guess we'll see how it holds up.
I got it because the noname brand I bought before wouldn't work for installing Linux, and it was really slow and took an hour to flash a 16GB ISO. The Sandisk is a lot faster, flashing the same ISO in a couple min (something like 100+ MB/s sustained IIRC).
My main complaint is that it's plastic, so the housing will probably break if I use the keychain option, but there's a more expensive metal line (Luxe) that would probably suit that use case if you need.
They seem to be pretty widely available, I picked mine up at Best Buy because I needed it same-day.
Edit: one minor downside is the drive does get a bit hot when doing lots of reads or writes. So if you're constantly reading and writing a ton of data, you could run into longevity issues if the temps stay high.