Hybrid LDPC-SEC/SECDED Decoding

A solid state storage device, comprising a non-volatile memory configured to store data encoded into a plurality of encoded data groups, each encoded data group of the plurality being encoded using a BCH or Hamming parity scheme, the plurality of encoded data groups being collectively further encoded by a parity scheme using a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) code, a non-volatile memory controller communicatively coupled to the non-volatile memory and configured to access the plurality of encoded data groups, a first decoder configured to first decode the plurality of encoded data groups by hard-decision decoding the parity in each encoded data group, and a second decoder commutatively coupled to the first decoder and configured to determine the data groups decoded by the first decoder that contain errors, and to decode the parity of the data groups that contain errors using likelihood-of-errors information that is input to the second decoder.