Examples are disclosed for techniques associated with protecting system critical data written to non-volatile memory. In some examples, system critical data may be written to a non-volatile memory using a first data protection scheme. User data that includes non-system critical data may also be written to the non-volatile memory using a second data protection scheme. For these examples, both data protection schemes may have a same given data format size. Various examples are provided for use of the first data protection scheme that may provide enhanced protection for the system critical data compared to protection provided to user data using the second data protection scheme. Other examples are described and claimed.