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Access data may be stored in one or more predefined locations in a storage region of the non-volatile memory device 120. For example, the first ECC chunk, the first two ECC chunks, the first N ECC chunks, the Nth one or more ECC chunks, or the like. In certain embodiments, each storage region may comprise access data. In certain embodiments, the access data for a storage region may comprise a media access control (MAC) header or erase block opener for a storage region. In one embodiment, an ECC chunk encoding access data may be protected by a stronger error correcting code than user data or workload data, multiple levels or layers of error correcting codes, or the like to ensure that the access data may be decoded and errors corrected. The adjustment module 306 may use access data for a region, decoded by the primary ECC module 302 and/or the secondary ECC module 304, to read from, write/program, and/or otherwise access other data of the region (e.g., user data, workload data, client data), as described below).

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