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Several types of data storage devices, such as Flash memory devices, store data in cells of non-volatile media. A physical property of each cell, such as a stored charge, material phase, electrical resistance, magnetization, or the like, is alterable to encode data. Parameters for the non-volatile media may define how a storage device stores data in the cells. For example, a storage device may use one or more read voltage thresholds, resistivity thresholds, or the like to separate the range of possible values for the physical property of a cell into discrete states, so that each state encodes a possible data value.

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