Ray, I'm sorry, but do you actually understand how flash memory works? powering on the SSD does exactly *nothing* to the cells until you at least read them (in which case you get a slight read wear on the cell and its neighbors), and you won't increase the charge levels inside a cell unless you erase and rewrite it, which does more damage, so the speed of charge leaking is higher than if you've just let the data alone.
(I mean, you're an EE – so model your gate capacitor!
Marcus Müller
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