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What if the SSD and everything else are 9 years old? Is that worth risking data loss over?
If it's that valuable, you should have backups anyway.
And chances are it's all cloud work that they're doing on the computers.
With the age of those computers you might even be looking at a HDD. Those should definitely be replaced, SSDs, it depends.
In any case a new 128G SDD is on the order of 15 bucks, well worth the investment even for an age-old system (unless you have a bit more extra cash because the GB/buck optimum is in the 0.5-2T range).