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> NAND is significantly faster when writing than NOR, read speed is of the
> same magnitude, possibly slower in many cases.

Right.

Specifically, read bandwidth is on the same order of magnitude.
However the read latency of NAND is a couple orders of magnitude
higher (100ns vs 20,000ns) so it depends on what you are doing.