In the exploded view of Plane 0, the conceptual diagram 400 further illustrates a single block-stripe (Block-stripe 0) out of the set of block-stripes supported in the remainder of the planes. Block-stripe 0 of plane 0 is shown as including 11 blocks, one block from each channel labeled “Channel 0” through “Channel 10”. It should be noted that the association of blocks to block-stripe can change over time as block-stripes are typically dissolved after they have been garbage collected. Erased blocks may be placed in free block pools, whereby new block-stripes are assembled from blocks in the free block pools when write allocation requests fresh block-stripes. For example, looking to conceptual diagram 400, Block 10 from Channel 0 and Block 41 from Channel 4 are currently associated with the illustrated Block-stripe 0 of Plane 0. Furthermore, the illustrated block-stripe holds N+1 page-stripes and each block therefore holds N+1 pages labeled “Page 0” through “Page N”. In different embodiments, the number of pages in each block may vary depending on the desired embodiment. According to an exemplary embodiment, which is in no way intended to limit the invention, a block may include 256 pages, but could include more or less in various embodiments. Analogously, the number of channels per plane and/or the number of planes may vary depending on the desired embodiment.