Kingston Fury Renegade 2TB SSD (with heatsink) Review

We used CrystalDiskMark 8 to test the random performance of the drive at lower queue depths (QD1 – QD8 where most of the everyday workloads occur) using 1 to 4 threads.

Random Read

In the 4K Random Read QD1 – QD8 series of tests, the performance of the 2TB version of Kingston's Fury Renegade Heatsink climbs smoothly through the queue depths with all the tested threads.

Using a single thread the performance ranges from 20,395 IOPS (83MB/s) at QD1 up to 121,624 IOPS (498MB/s) at QD8. Using four threads the QD1 performance climbs to 79,811 IOPS (326MB/s) while the QD8 performance climbs to 364,141 IOPS (1,491MB/s)

Random Write

After the initial rise in performance between QDs 1 and 2, the write performance of the 2TB Fury Renegade Heatsink appears to plateau out when using a single thread. The same seems to happen when using four threads although the peak happens at QD4. Using two and three threads there is no levelling out of the performance.

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