Kingston FURY Renegade NVMe SSD Officially Debuts

Kingston FURY Renegade NVMe SSD Officially Debuts

Kingston is expanding its high-performance portfolio with the Fury Renegade SSD, one of the fastest drives on the market and with greater endurance than its predecessor, Kingston's KC3000. However, this additional endurance comes at the cost of slightly less storage capacity.

The Kingston Fury Renegade drive is available in 500GB, 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB capacities, and promises several improvements over the KC3000 SSD. This new Kingston SSD can deliver up to 7.3 GB/s of bandwidth (an increase of 300 MB/s) via the PCIe 4.0 interface, as well as up to 1 million IOPS. It also claims endurance of 1 PBW (1 petabyte of data written) per TB, compared to 800 TBW per TB for the KC3000. Another key difference between these two very similar SSD drives is that the Fury Renegade is positioned as a gaming SSD and is touted as PlayStation 5 ready (though the drive does not come with a heatsink).

The Fury Renegade SSD works in conjunction with Kingston's SSD Manager application. The SSD toolkit provides basic information about the drive, including the serial number and firmware version, as well as usage and health statistics.

The Fury Renegade SSD uses the common M.2 2280 form factor with a graphene aluminum heatsink and is single-sided in the 1TB capacity. The drive employs the Phison E18 controller, one of the top contenders in the PCIe 4.0 market. The Phison E18 is paired with Micron's 176-layer TLC flash. The Fury Renegade SSD also features the dual-DRAM layout that Kingston uses across multiple products, here with two 512GB modules for a total of 1TB. There are two 512GB NAND packages, which are in an 8DP configuration for interleaving purposes.

The Kingston Fury Renegade SSD performs well against other fourth-gen PCIe drives and is a good choice for computer users, albeit expensive. But no matter how great they are, Kingston Fury Renegade SSDs are susceptible to logical SSD failures that can render critical user files inaccessible. At that point, Kingston Fury Renegade SSD owners will need to contact a professional data recovery service provider to retrieve their data. FixmyData engineers are capable of successfully recovering data from all brands and models of SSDs and would be happy to assist Kingston Fury Renegade SSD owners with their data recovery needs.