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this post was submitted on 27 Nov 2023
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No, but they don't lose charge over time, so bitflips are less likely if they lay around for a long time. However they are less resistant to mechanical failures, so it's kind of a trade-off.
If you use a sane backup software it should be able to just overwrite all the data making bitflips hardly relevant.