Kingston Fury Renegade 2TB SSD (with heatsink) Review

The front of the box has a large clear image of the drive on it. Above the image is a line of text displaying that the drive is a PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 design. At the top of the box is a label which shows the drive's capacity and its maximum Sequential read speed.

On the back we find another image of the drive and a small window to show the drive in the box. The rest of the rear panel is covered in multilingual marketing notes.

The heatsink that the Fury Renegade uses is a two-part aluminium design, neatly finished in matt back, that uses four tiny screws to hold it all together. The drive itself is sandwiched between two full-length thermal pads.

The 2TB Fury Renegade is a two-sided design. At the heart of the Fury Renegade is a Phison PS5018-E18 controller which sits on one side of the PCB along with four of the eight Micron 176-layer 3D TLC NAND B47R NAND (Kingston branded) packages that the drive uses along with one of the two 1GB DDR4-2666 DRAM chips used to store mapping tables. The other side of the PCB holds the remaining four NAND packages and the second DRAM IC.

Kingston’s SSD management software utility is simply called SSD Manager. With it, you can monitor the health of the drive and how it’s being used, check the drive’s SMART data (including reliability tracking, usage statistics, life remaining, wear levelling and temperature) and update the firmware.

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