Its designers explicitly broke from past practice, stating plainly that "the aim of NAND Flash is to replace hard disks," rather than the traditional use of ROM as a form of non-volatile primary storage.
Njegovi dizajneri su eksplicitno prekinuli praksu iz prošlosti, navodeći jasno da je „cilj NAND flash da zameni hard diskove“, a ne tradicionalne upotrebe ROM kao oblika stalnog primarnog skladišta.