My opinion is that SSD drives are best used for operating systems, and are not for your files. Yes, I understand the idea of backups. But you don’t want the SSD drive to fail in the middle of saving an important file.
The ideal setup:
1. Two SSD drives, or one internal SSD and one external. One has the operating system, and the second SSD is used to mirror the first on regular invervals. That is your backup. NO personal files go on either of these two drives.
2. Internal or external standard SATA drives — These are for your data. One is a mirror of the primary drive. The other is used only for routine backups.
3. External drives you routinely use to back up everything and then store in another location. Fires and tornadoes happen.
I fully agree with you. Not only do I use Acronis true image to back up my boot drive to a hard drive, that backup is also copied to my HTPC ensuring that I have two copies of each backup.
I also RESTORE that Backup to ONE SSD with NO drive letter thereby protecting it from Virus or hackers on my main machine. If my boot drive fails, I can simply change my motherboards boot drive priority to use that SSD as my primary boot drive and when I reboot it becomes my new “C” drive with the old “C” drive being hidden but available using Disk Management to make it visible.
Basically, my “C’ drive is my boot drive, my “D” drive contains all my system sources as well as my app sources and data backup. My large multi TB hard drives, E,F,G,H,I, and J contain various audio and video files while my “W” drive contains all the backups from my four machines.