Testseek.com have collected 66 expert reviews of the Kingston M.2 Fury Renegade Series NVMe PCIe and the average rating is 90%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Kingston M.2 Fury Renegade Series NVMe PCIe.
January 2022
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The editors liked
High quality
Top performance
Compatible with PS5
Available in high capacities
Up to 4TB
5-year/2PBW warranty
Heat sink helps to keep optimal temperature and performance
Reasonable price
Excellent Performance Levels
Endurance (2000TBW /
1
8
Million Hours MTBF)
Available With / Without PS5 Compatible Heatsink
Limited Thermal Throttling (Heatsink)
Acronis Disk Cloning Software (Serial)
- 5 Year Limited Warranty
Best write performance we've ever seen
Attractive heatsink
Compatible with PlayStation 5
5-year warranty
Does not thermally throttle
Available up to 4TB
Fantastic real-life performance
Outstanding sustained writes
No thermal throttling
Heatsink preinstalled
DRAM cache
Available in 4 TB variant
Compatible with Sony PlayStation 5
Five-year warranty
Compact form factor
Comes in capacities up to 4TB
Moderately priced 1TB and 2TB versions
Matched its sequential read and write speed ratings in testing
Comes with Acronis True Image HD backup/cloning software
Above-par durability (TBW) ratings
High burst and bandwidth-driven performance with PCIe 4.0 support
Good efficiency and thermal metrics
Strong warranty
Fast performance in Gaming and Production ventures
The SSD thermal results are good despite lacking a heatsink
Great performance against other high-end SSDs
PlayStation 5-ready
Blisteringly fast symmetric speeds in excess of 7GB/s
Highly-effective low-profile heatsink option
Reasonably priced
5 year warranty
Will work perfectly for PlayStation 5 or PC
The editors didn't like
Not compatible with motherboards with already installed thick thermal pads for both sides of SSD and built-in heat sinks
Or ROG GEN-Z M.2 SSD cards
Warranty sticker on the heat sink – can't remove the heat sink without losing a warranty
Price (For Some)
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Couldn't get to the advertised read speed of 7300 MB/s
More expensive than many competing drives
Middling overall test scores
Lacks hardware-based encryption
Expensive
Some competitors are faster at 1TB
Some sluggish performance in emulation and virtualization
The price point might be too much for entry-level users
Published: 2023-01-27, Author: Jonathan , review by: aphnetworks.com
With the latest market pricing and in light of several competitor models that has released since then, is the Kingston FURY Renegade 1TB still one of the best among the rest? There were a few excellent releases we tested since we looked at the no heatsink...
Published: 2022-06-24, Author: Jonathan , review by: aphnetworks.com
Knowing the Kingston FURY Renegade 1TB is an updated version of the KC3000 1TB I reviewed last year, featuring a revised firmware for a slightly higher read speed of 7300MB/s rather than 7000MB/s and a 25% increase in rated write endurance to 1000TBW, did...
Published: 2022-11-14, Author: Jon , review by: tweaktown.com
It's Kingston crafted goodness through and through.Pros+ Gaming PC or console performance+ PS5 heatsink+ High TBWCons- NoneShould you buy it?AvoidConsiderShortlistBuyBuy at AmazonIntroduction & Drive DetailsWhen Kingston sets its mind to do something, the...
Published: 2021-12-21, Author: James , review by: impulsegamer.com
While this drive works very well on a PC, the Kingston FURY Renegade PCIe NVMe M. SSD is the perfect upgrade for your PlayStation and really smashes the GB barrier with its TB model to give you a total of TB of space or TB of user storage. Even though t...
Reasonably priced,Master of all trades,Top-tier endurance rating
Some similar drives slightly cheaper,Older 176-Layer TLC NAND
Kingston's Fury Renegade M.2 PCIe 4.0 SSD is a phenomenal piece of kit. Despite its somewhat aged TLC, in real-world scenarios it absolutely dominates in both raw copy tests and game loading times. It may be a PCIe 4.0 drive, but this might just be the be...
Couldn't confirm the maximum official 4K figures under testing, No AES hardware encryption,
The original version of Kingston's Fury Renegade came with a low-profile graphene aluminium heat spreader. Now Kingston has launched a version of the drive with a fully-fledged heatsink which makes the drive compatible with the PS5. The two-part aluminium...
Abstract: Like the Kingston Fury Renegade SSD, I won't waste any time, this drive is one of the best SSDs for PS5 you can buy. This new heatsink version was released specifically with Sony's console in mind, Kingston's taken all considerations to bring its leading...
The built-in heat spreader works well, Achieves sequential speeds upwards of 7000 MB/s, It's ready for DirectStorage
Higher configurations get really pricey
The Kingston Fury Renegade is one of the best SSDs for gaming on the market right now, with some of the fastest sequential performance you can get on the Gen 4.0 platform...
Abstract: Games have a huge data of assets, usually running in couple of gigabytes, that need to be loaded into the RAM for easy access time and again. A fast drive will ensure that you spend minimal time waiting between levels, lost in loading screens.We are wel...
