An embodiment of an electronic apparatus may include one or more substrates, and logic coupled to the one or more substrates, the logic to determine a set of requirements for a persistent storage media based on input from an agent, dedicate one or more banks of the persistent storage media to the agent based on the set of requirements, and configure at least one of the dedicated one or more banks of the persistent storage media at a program mode width which is narrower than a native maximum program mode width for the persistent storage media. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.