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Skimp on an SSD at your own risk...
Their reliability and speed are extremely dependent on the quality of the firmware. Does she do backups? Worst case scenario, assuming she doesn't backup, some off-brand SSD could easily just make everything vanish and not even slightly recoverable, just gone.
If she gets a samsung/sandisk etc, she can always take it out and use it in an external enclosure when the rest of the laptop inevitably fails.
But keeping a decade-old laptop going with the cheapest SSD just sounds like bad recipe.