SSD BOOT BASED ON PRIORITIZED ENDURANCE GROUPS

An embodiment of a semiconductor apparatus may include technology to create two or more logical to physical translation maps for a persistent storage media, associate a respective group with each of the two or more logical to physical translation maps, assign priority information to the respective groups, and initialize the respective groups at boot time based on the assigned priority information. Another embodiment may further include technology to mark an initialized group as ready for commands. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.