It's important to backup the operating system, but even more so for such things as videos, photos, email, data, etc. An operating system can be easily replaced, maybe not the other items. Reliability is of extreme importance.
Crucial SSDs have always proved to be 100% reliable for the operating system and as backup media - at least from my experience.

ive bought cheaper brands of SSDs that typically fail in less than a year. crucial on the other hand has been going rock strong and still a great bargain. silent and way faster than the stock mechanical HDD that came in my computer. works in laptops AND desktops

so far so good, fast in every phase of a solid state drive and excellent software to go with it

Replaced my old hard disk with this ssd. Unplugged the old drive, plugged this in. Closed the case. Booted to USB with windows 10 installer and done. Boots up quick.

Great budget option for those looking for a reliable and fast SSD.