You can certainly buy SSDs now that are rated to more read/write cycles than your 7-year-old Seagate will have gone through. The ones we buy are rated for 3+ y

You can certainly buy SSDs now that are rated to more read/write cycles than your 7-year-old Seagate will have gone through. The ones we buy are rated for 3+ years of constant I/O at full bus speed. I don't know how much of that tech is in the sort of SSD you're likely to buy for a desktop, but they're certainly available.