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In one embodiment, two dies are stacked vertically with four stacks per group to form eight storage elements (e.g. SSS 0.0-SSS 0.8) 216a-220a, each in a separate bank 214a-n. In another embodiment, 20 storage elements (e.g. SSS 0.0-SSS 20.0) 216 form a virtual bank 214a so that each of the eight virtual banks has 20 storage elements (e.g. SSS0.0-SSS 20.8) 216, 218, 220. Data is sent to the solid-state storage 110 over the storage I/O bus 210 to all storage elements of a particular group of storage elements (SSS 0.0-SSS 0.8) 216a, 218a, 220a. The storage control bus 212a is used to select a particular bank (e.g. Bank-0 214a) so that the data received over the storage I/O bus 210 connected to all banks 214 is written just to the selected bank 214a.

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