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hot spares

hot spares is the plural of hot spare.

Meaning of hot spare

Noun

hot spare (plural hot spares)

  1. 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.

Questions about hot spares

What is hot spares the plural of?
Hot spares is the plural of hot spare.

Words near hot spares in the dictionary

  1. hot shot
  2. hot shots
  3. hot sleeper
  4. hot sleepers
  5. hot spare
  6. hot spares
  7. hot spell
  8. hot spells
  9. hot spot
  10. hot spots
  11. hot spring

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