A method for intra-block recovery of an Erasure Code protected memory page stripe may be provided. The method comprises providing a data storage device comprising a plurality of EC protected memory page stripes, each of which comprising a plurality of memory pages, wherein corresponding memory pages of the plurality of the page stripes are organized as a plurality of blocks comprising each the corresponding pages, each memory page comprising a plurality of non-volatile memory cells, and wherein each page stripe comprises at least one stripe parity page, grouping memory pages of a block into at least one window, each window comprising a plurality of memory pages of the block, and maintaining at least one parity page for each window of the block, such that a page read failure is recoverable even if multiple memory pages per page stripe experience a read failure concurrently.