Kingston has two direct downloads available for its customers: the Kingston SSD Manager and Acronis True Image for Kingston. The SSD manager is your typical “toolbox” application used to check drive health, verify drive information, and engage drive features. It’s also used to update the drive firmware which is important as Kingston is one of the few companies to offer an update for the Phison E18’s performance issues for both its KC3000 and PCIe 4.0 Fury Renegade SSDs. True Image needs no introduction as it’s a typical OEM software package used to image and backup data/drives for migrating data on new drive installations.
(Image credit: Tom's Hardware) (Image credit: Tom's Hardware) The Fury Renegade G5 is single-sided at 2TB and, in fact, at all capacities, which is a bonus. Single-sided drives have higher compatibility and can be easier to cool. The drive comes with a heat-spreading label, which can help cool the drive in setups lacking space for a heatsink. You may also add a heatsink to this drive with or without removing the label if space is available. While the early adopter PCIe 5.0 drives required a heatsink for proper operation, newer drives like the Fury Renegade G5 are less restrictive.
While we do think that having a heatsink option would be nice, experience with newer motherboards – and you will have a newer motherboard if you’re buying a high-end PCIe 5.0 drive – suggests that you will almost always have a heatsink provided for at least the primary M.2 slot. The drive is thankfully cool-running enough that it won’t need a heatsink in many cases, too.
(Image credit: Tom's Hardware) (Image credit: Tom's Hardware) (Image credit: Tom's Hardware) The 2TB Renegade G5 has an SSD controller, a single DRAM package, and two NAND flash packages. A keen eye might notice that there’s no PMIC and that the PCB is relatively unadorned. This would be due to the SM2508 ASIC having an integrated power management controller. It’s one reason this hardware is so efficient relative to earlier solutions, and intelligent power management that can toggle blocks/modules as needed means you also get lower idle draw. It’s easy to think that SSDs haven’t progressed that much, but they are actually getting more complex as time goes on.
The drive’s external volatile memory or DRAM, used primarily for metadata caching, is LPDDR4. This is more efficient than standard DDR4 – hence LP or “low power” – with the potential to take up less space and provide more throughput. Physical space is important for SSDs, given the relatively small M.2 2280 and shorter form factors that SSDs use, but power consumption and cost are more important factors. Throughput or bandwidth is also not as important as the bigger benefit for a look-up table would manifest as lower latency, which can be optimized by running the DRAM at a lower speed. The impact on the user is minimal either way, but we would say LPDDR4 is preferable to DDR4 on what is intended to be a relatively power-efficient PCIe 5.0 platform.
The flash being used is Kioxia BiCS8 TLC, which, in our opinion, is excellent and preferable to Micron’s in most cases. We have discussed the technical aspects of this flash in previous reviews, such as the one for the Sandisk WD Black SN8100 . It’s power-efficient and tends to have excellent random read performance, which is all-important for having a responsive everyday experience. It doesn’t win all the battles, but is preferable to most other flash on the market, such as the 232-Layer Micron and YMTC TLC flash found on some competing or older drives.
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Reference reading
- https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/SPONSORED_LINK_URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/kingston-fury-renegade-g5-2tb-ssd-review#main
- https://www.tomshardware.com
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