Increased capacity of a NAND flash memory may be achieved by increasing the availability of non-defective physical blocks by allowing logical super blocks to have physical blocks with different associated position numbers within the physical blocks' respective planes. A flash memory module has one or more flash memory integrated circuits (ICs), each having multiple physical blocks. The physical blocks are grouped into planes characterized in that only physical blocks from different planes can be erased simultaneously. Embodiments of the invention include a method of managing the physical blocks of the flash memory, a flash memory system for managing data transfer between a host and the flash memory ICs, and a machine readable storage medium containing instructions for a controller in the management of physical blocks of flash memory.