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Kingston's latest addition to the Fury line of SSD drives is an important one. The Fury Renegade G5 is the company's first consumer drive to use a PCIe 5.0 interface, and we check out the 2TB model that's launching for around £290.
The new Fury Renegade G5 model lineup at launch comprises three capacities: a 1TB entry drive, 2TB (the drive we are reviewing here) and a flagship 4TB model. The Renegade G5 uses a Silicon Motion SM2508 controller combined with what we think is 218-layer 3D TLC NAND.
Kingston quotes the sequential read/write performance of the 2TB drive as up to 14,700MB/s and up to 14,000MB/s respectively. The 1TB drive gets up to 14,200MB/s read and 11,000MB/s write ratings, and the 4TB drive is up to 14,800MB/s reads and the same 14,000MB/s write figure as the 2TB drive.
As for 4K random performance, all three drives have the same up to 2,200K IOPS for reads, the 2TB and 4TB drives get the same up to 2,200K IOPS for writes, with the 1TB drive rated as up to 2,150K IOPS for random writes.
Power consumption for the 2TB model is officially quoted as 0.27W average and 7W maximum. Kingston quotes an endurance figure for the 2TB drive as 2.0PB, and they back the drive with a 5-year warranty.
Physical Specifications:
- Usable Capacities: 2TB.
- NAND Components: 218-layer 3D TLC NAND,
- NAND Controller: Silicon Motion SM2508.
- Cache: 2GB LGDDR4.
- Interface: PCIe Gen 5 x4, NVMe 2.0.
- Form Factor: M.2, 2280.
- Dimensions: 80 x 22 x 2.3mm.
- Drive Weight: 7.7g.
Firmware Version: SGW00110
