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Even without refreshing the cells they actually last quite a lot longer than you would expect. This is an old research paper on the topic but unfortunately, it looks like all of the images and videos are broken which is a shame because it gave you a great mental picture of the "half-life" so to speak of RAM.

https://citp.princeton.edu/research/memory/

The bottom line is that you would need to stop refreshing it for minutes if not longer to be sure that there wasn't an information leak and if the memory is cooled down it'll last a great deal longer without being refreshed and even still keep the majority of the contents after hours of being removed from a running system if they are cooled using liquid nitrogen. Either way one or two cycles isn't going to really matter at all.



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