Hardware problems after connecting external SSD

I bought a Sandisk 120 GB SSD for my new Mac mini (late 2012).
However, when I discovered that it seemed quite bothersome to put it inside the mini (although there is room for it), I bought an external case for it.
It was easy to put the drive inside, and it worked first-time. Of course... :-)
But a few times now, the WLAN speed of the mini got really slooow. And some other thing got me wondering about harware problems. The connection to the drive is a USB 3 cable that came with the case.
I talked to Apple support, and got satisfied with things, except that I got web page information on how to do a Apple Hardware test, that does not mention how to do, if you, as in the mini, do not have a DVD drive (and no DVD with the test software, I think...).
Now, I also tried one other thing - I moved the external drive to the other side of the mini, if it in some way affects the radio connection in the WLAN. We'll see how things work out.
The last thing, how to transfer things from the HD to the SSD, I will come to when I think that the hardware works ok. I'll wait a day or two.
Apple does not recommend running the OS from an external SSD, but for me I think it should work ok. Except that I got worried how to do if I have a drive failure.
I use Time Machine, and if I understand correctly, I can transfer everything from the internal HD containing about 100 GB to the SSD by doing a Time Machine Restore to it.
Any information on this would be interesting!
Thanks,
/groundliner

Why does not Restore work the other way around, to an external SSD? Seems a bit illogical.
The Time Machine backup is not bootable, but I came up with the idea of booting from the Recovery partition, with my Time Machine partition then being available for a Restore.
Thanks for the idea of using Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper, I've seen them mentioned. But the Apple guy I talked to thought (if I understood him correctly), that I could Restore to the external SSD, but that Apple recommends using internal SSDs.
Thanks for mentioning the Recovery Partition problem, but I now just installed a small startup partition on the internal 500 GB hard disk. So, I ought to have a recovery partition there, even if I reformat the Macintosh HD partition presently residing there. I am not familiar with exactly where the boot is tried, since the normal Startup Disk would be the external SSD. But, yes, the small startup partition should suffice, if I can boot from it (how?).
I had so much problems, partly from my own muddy thinking, using Migration Assistant for moving to the Mac mini, that I do not want that again.
I have an external, big Time Machine Backup Volume, that should suffice for backing up all other Volumes.
I have wanted to learn, and not missing simple things that could cause trouble, so I'm thankful for all ideas.
If neccessary I will buy the software to copy all files to the external SSD!
Thanks!
/groundliner
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