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The array 600 of storage elements 606, in one embodiment, includes N number of storage elements 606a, 606b, 606c, . . . 606n. Each storage element 606 may comprise a device, a chip, a portion of a chip, a die, or the like. In the depicted embodiment, the storage elements 606a-n form a bank 602a. The array 600, in one embodiment, includes several banks 602a . . . 602m. The banks 602a-m, in the depicted embodiment, include several channels 604a, 604b, 604c, . . . , 604n. In one embodiment, a packet or data set is written across the several channels 604a-n and data is read separately from each channel 604a-n and reassembled into the packet. In another embodiment, an ECC chunk 616, packet, or data set is written across the several channels 604a-n and data is read in parallel from all the channels 604a-n. One read operation on a bank 602a may read a whole ECC chunk 616, packet, or data set or a portion of an ECC chunk 616, packet, or data set that is reassembled into a whole ECC chunk 616, packet, or data set. In the depicted embodiment, each channel includes at least one storage element 606 in each bank 602.

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