Embodiments include apparatuses, method, and systems for managing a transfer buffer associated with a non-volatile memory. In one embodiment, controller logic may be coupled to a non-volatile memory and a transfer buffer. The controller logic may read a plurality of sectors of data from the non-volatile memory and store the read sectors in the transfer buffer. The controller logic may further allocate individual sectors to pages according to a completion time of the read of individual sectors of the plurality of sectors, the individual pages including a plurality of the sectors. The controller logic may further write the pages of sectors to the non-volatile memory responsive to a determination that all sectors of the page have been read.