The preferred embodiments described herein provide a memory device and method for redundancy/self-repair. In one preferred embodiment, a memory device is provided comprising a primary block of memory cells and a redundant block of memory cells. In response to an error in writing to the primary block, a flag is stored in a set of memory cells allocated to the primary block, and the redundant block is written into. In another preferred embodiment, an error in writing to a primary block is detected while an attempt is made to write to that block. In response to the error, the redundant block is written into. In yet another preferred embodiment, a memory device is provided comprising a three-dimensional memory array and redundancy circuitry. In still another preferred embodiment, a method for testing a memory array is provided. Other preferred embodiments are provided, and each of the preferred embodiments described herein can be used alone or in combination with one another.

 
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