A non-volatile storage device, which communicates with an access device and carries out reading and/or writing of data in accordance with a command from the access device, the device comprises one or more non-volatile memories for storing data and a memory controller for carrying out control of the non-volatile memory. The memory controller writes data to the error correcting group and writes a provisional error correcting code with respect to the data to the parity table if a data size is smaller than the first size when writing the data.