Control circuitry provides control signals to a common X line and a set of Y lines to change a first data storage element of the multiple data storage elements from a first state to a second state by passing a current into the first data storage element from a different Y line through a different storage element. The control circuitry provides control signals to the common X line and the set of Y lines to sequentially change additional data storage elements of the multiple data storage elements from the first state to the second state by passing currents into the additional data storage elements from data storage elements of the multiple data storage elements that were previously changed to the second state and their associated different Y lines.