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hot spare

noun

Definitions

  1. A spare device, component, or other piece of equipment which is kept powered up although…

    A spare device, component, or other piece of equipment which is kept powered up although not being actively used, allowing it to be immediately brought online as a replacement should a piece of equipment fail while in active use.

    • In addition to the six hard drives making up the primary RAID array, the server has three hot spares ready to automatically take over for any failed drives in the array.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hot spare. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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