Introduction

With revenue in the multi-billion dollars range, Kingston is the largest DRAM and flash memory products vendor in the world. While their strongest suit is memory modules and USB/flash card storage, they are also a major player in the SSD market, having released famous products such as the KC2500, KC3000, NV1 and NV2.

Today we’ll be reviewing the new Kingston Fury Renegade with preinstalled heatsink. The Kingston Fury Renegade without heatsink has been out roughly one year, and was launched to provide a gaming-oriented counterpart to the KC3000. The only noteworthy difference between the two drives is that the KC3000 comes with less overprovisioning, otherwise the drives are identical, physically, too. Back when it was released, Kingston talked about “PS5 Ready” for the Fury Renegade, but Sony’s requirements for M.2 SSDs in the PlayStation 5 clearly mandate that a heatsink must be installed. That’s how the Kingston Fury Renegade Heatsink was born. Thanks to the solid metal heatsink temperatures should be low enough to avoid thermal throttling—which is something we will test in this review. As expected, the SSD controller used is the Phison E18, which is one of the fastest controllers available at this time. 2 GB of DRAM cache are included, too, for the mapping tables of the SSD.

The Kingston Fury Renegade comes in capacities of 500 GB ($100), 1 TB ($128), 2 TB ($220) and 4 TB ($570). Endurance for these models is set to 500 TBW, 1000 TBW, 2000 TBW and 4000 TBW, respectively. Kingston includes a five-year warranty with the Fury Renegade SSD.