Wow, there's some insight. If my new SSD fails somehow, I can just plug the old one back in. I hadn't thought of that.
You know, I have never, ever performed a successful backup of my system. I have tried. But the whole concept eludes me. What do I save? All of the drive? Some critical files, or personal files? Where would I "save" it at. Some remote storage drive with ample free space? What a mess!! I've been computing since the late 80's, and grown from a 386 and a CGA monitor to my current specs today. I've never lost any drives or data. Pretty sure I still have a set of backup files on here somewhere. They are outdated now, stored in XML format or something, or was it a bunch of zips. Anyway, just useless waste of my hard drive space.
I know it happens, but never has happened to me.
I don't do backups, or try to maintain them somewhere, somehow. That's just how I roll.