I would not listen to the doom and gloom posts and come to the conclusion that all SSDs are unreliable. Those users were unfortunate to buy from manufacturers such as OCZ, Corsair, etc. They have been known for a couple of years to have poor quality control and have pushed out series after series of unreliable drives, yet many people still bought them due to the lower price (at the time) and then complained about data loss. Others were unfortunate to not know about the unreliability before purchase, as store sales staff will push anything to get rid of stock.
As others have said, Samsung's series are excellent, as are most of the Intels and the ones from Crucial. I don't even need to list the models as those companies have consistently pushed out reliable solid-state drives and have good quality control overall.
I personally have several Crucial C300s & C400s, and my current system has a Samsung 830. However, despite the very low failure rates from these manufacturers, I still run regular backups as any electronics hardware can fail unexpectedly.
If you're after some backup software, I'd wholeheartedly recommend Macrium Reflect:
http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx
The free version is very capable, and unlike junk like Acronis or most of the other backup software you see on the market with all the bells and whistles, it's actually very reliable and won't unexpectedly fail on you when you're trying to restore your data despite giving you a thumbs up during the backup itself.