back...ups? What are they?

I don't use the SSD for the Documents folder or anything like that. It's the system drive and a few programs. I dunno, normal hard drives that actually break are probably quite hard to recover data from too I'd have thought, at least without paying a lot of money. 

Ha! How I missed this I do not know.

There are certain HDD failures that one can quite easily recover backups from, but SSDs (at least ones from a couple of years ago) did not have that capability.