Kingston Fury Renegade 2TB NVMe SSD Evaluate

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Kingston Fury Renegade 2TB
Kingston Fury Renegade 2TB

Immediately, we’re wanting on the Kingston Fury Renegade 2TB NVMe SSD. Kingston is an outdated model that has been round so long as I’ve been fascinated with computer systems, and it has been some time (3+ years) since we’ve checked out a Kingston SSD, so I assumed it was time. Whereas earlier Kingston drives I’ve checked out have been all low-end parts, the Fury Renegade is focused on the high-end PCIe Gen4 market, so I’ve excessive hopes for its efficiency. The identify Fury Renegade is a bit unwieldy, and Kingston swaps focus between the phrase Fury and Renegade, so you’ll have to forgive me if I simply shorten it to Renegade for this assessment.

Kingston Fury Renegade 2TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSD

The Kingston Renegade 2TB is available in a double-sided M.2 2280 (80mm) kind issue.

Kingston Renegade 2TB Front
Kingston Renegade 2TB Entrance

The Fury Renegade is offered each with and and not using a heatsink, and my check drive is the naked drive mannequin. The Amazon itemizing says it has a graphene warmth spreader, however as a preview of the thermal outcomes, I can say it’s not very efficient. Regardless, what we’ve right here is a reasonably normal Phison PS5018 controller and Micron 176-layer TLC. This is identical mixture of {hardware} seen within the Seagate FireCuda 530, which is a superb drive. As a high-end Gen4 drive, the Renegade additionally comes outfitted with a DDR4 DRAM cache.

Kingston Renegade 2TB Back
Kingston Renegade 2TB Again

The bottom of the Kingston Renegade 2TB incorporates half of the DRAM and half the NAND beneath the white product label. Some set up places can solely settle for single sided drives, so hold that in thoughts.

Kingston Renegade 2TB SSD Specs

The Kingston Renegade Fury 2TB is offered between 500GB and 4TB capability factors.

Kingston Renegade 2TB Specs
Kingston Renegade 2TB Specs

The 2TB mannequin comes rated for 7300 MB/s learn and 7000 MB/s write, which is on the top-end of Gen 4 drives. Given the pedigree of this particular Phison controller and NAND mixture, the potential definitely exists to hit these marks.

Endurance is rated at 2 PBW for the 2TB drive, which is superb. My normal for endurance on a 2TB drive is often 1200 TBW, so 2 PBW has fairly a lead on that quantity. The guarantee is the business normal 5-year as properly, and as talked about earlier than Kingston is an outdated and well-known model.

Kingston Renegade 2TB CrystalDiskInfo
Kingston Renegade 2TB CrystalDiskInfo

CrystalDiskInfo can provide us some fundamental details about the SSD and confirms we’re working at PCIe 4.0 x4 speeds utilizing NVMe 1.4.

Take a look at System Configuration

We’re utilizing the next configuration for this check:

  • Motherboard: MSI MAG X670E Tomahawk
  • CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7900X (12C/24T)
  • RAM: 2x 16GB DDR5-6000 UDIMMs

Our testing makes use of the Kingston Renegade 2TB because the boot drive for the system, put in within the M.2_1 slot on the motherboard. This slot helps as much as PCIe Gen 5 x4. The drive is stuffed to 85% capability with information, after which some is deleted, leaving round 60% used house on the amount.

Subsequent, we’re going to get into our efficiency testing.

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