Warning to others migrating your OS to a SSD

It is not clear to me exactly what point you are trying to make.

First, when I get a new laptop (I only buy  laptops) I make a backup of all of the partitions and put it on a external usb drive. I always put it on an external drive, never on the same disc.

Then, if the disc becomes corrupt I can always restore to the original drive from the external drive. I know this works because I have done it a lot on several machines and this process, using Acronis, has never failed me.

If I want to use a different disc for the restore I replace the disc and restore to the new disc.

If the original disc will not boot to allow me to use the disc installed version of Acronis I just use the bootable disc I made with the software when I first got it.

What I do not try to do is to restore the backup to a completely different machine. The version of Windows that is on the backup was licensed for a particular machine and that is the machine I restore to. Given that one restriction the process I use has never failed me yet and I have been using it on multiple machines since Acronis, version 10.

If the recovery partition has gone corrupt I do not have a problem because I have the original backup which would then contain the original recovery partition which was good when the backup was made.

If the recovery partition is bad when delivered by the manufacturer, then it cannot be used at all. However I still have the backup which is OK. Maybe the recovery partition will not restore the system, but the backup will.

You can make the argument that a Windows disc is better than a recovery partition because the recovery partition may be bad when delivered, but a similar case can be made that the installation disc could be bad (scratched, demagnitized, etc) when delivered. Further, I am less likely to lose the recovery partition than the installation disc or, since I probably have hundreds of cds and dvds, mixed up somewhere that will take me an hour to find. And, of course, I am far less likely to scratch the recovery disc than the installation dvd.