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Basically, "the way in which the thing fails"

Closely related to its causes.

Often brought up in a "what's the worst thing that can happen, and how do we deal with that?" sense - see also fail-safe

For example, platter hard drives may

The term might appear in a sentence mentioning that RAID can only deal with some of these failure modes.

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+===Failure mode===
+Basically, "the way in which the thing fails"
+Closely related to its causes.
+Often brought up in a "what's the worst thing that can happen, and how do we deal with that?" sense - see also [[fail-safe]]
+For example, platter hard drives may
+* fail electronically
+* fail mechanically
+* have detectable bad sectors
+* have undetectable corruption
+The term might appear in a sentence mentioning that RAID can only deal with some of these failure modes.