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Fault Tolerance

Fault Tolerance: The ability for a computer to tolerate (hardware) faults developing in one or more of its components, and to continue operating despite those faults. For example a RAID (if appropriately configured) is fault tolerant because it can withstand a disk failing without loss of data..

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