Kingston Fury Renegade G5 8TB SSD Review

1. Introduction2. Kingston Fury Renegade G5 8TB3. Testing Methodology4. CrystalDiskMark5. ATTO Disk Benchmark6. AS SSD7. 128KB Seq performance8. 4K Random Read v QD Performance9. 4K Random Write v QD Performance10. 4K 70/30 Mixed Performance11. 4K Random Performance QD1-QD812. Throughput13. PCMark 10 Full System Drive Benchmark14. 3DMark Storage Benchmark 15. Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker Official Benchmark16. Temperatures17. Real Life File Testing18. Closing Thoughts19. View All Pages

When Kingston launched their first Gen 5 PCIe SSD, the Fury Renegade G5, the model line topped out at 4TB. Such is the demand for very large capacity M.2 drives that barely seven months on from the launch of the Fury Renegade G5, Kingston has launched a new flagship drive that doubles the original flagship's capacity to 8TB.

The Fury Renegade G5 is built around a Silicon Motion SM2508 controller, one of the new breed of eight-channel controllers that manage the neat trick of blending performance with cooler-running and better power efficiency, which is why the Fury Renegade G5 doesn't come with a big old heatsink pre-installed.

Kingston rates the Sequential performance of the drive as the same as the 4TB model, up to 14,800MB/s for reads and up to 14,000MB/s for writes. The 8TB drive has the same up to 2,200K IOPS 4K read rating as the rest of the Fury Renegade G5 line-up, with writes rated at the same speed.

When we tested the drive with the ATTO 4 benchmark, the best we saw from the drive was 12,780MB/s for reads and 8,600MB/s for writes, both results well short of the official maximum figures. However, a switch to ATTO 5 confirmed the official figures with a read result of 14,900MB/s and 14,190MB/s for writes. Switching over to the CrystalDiskMark 8 default benchmark, we could again confirm the official maximum figures with test results of 14,890MB/s for reads and 14,143MB/s for writes.

When it came to 4K random performance, we couldn't get anywhere close to the official figures using our 4-threaded testing. Kingston rates the 4K random performance of the 8TB Fury Renegade G5 as up to 2,200K IOPS for both reads and writes. The best we saw from testing was 519,436 IOPS and 386,571 IOPS (both QD16) for reads and writes, respectively. The best performance figures we saw from the drive came from using the default Peak Performance profile in CrystalDiskMark 8 with reads (default) at 1,855,619 IOPS and writes at 1,609,952 IOPS.

The hottest the drive got while benchmarking was 40° C during a CrystalDiskMark 8 default Write test run. For the bulk of our testing, the drive averaged 35° C, with the 4K-focused tests averaging 30° C, both well below the drive's 70° C maximum operating temperature.

We found the 8TB version of the Fury Renegade G5 on Scan for £999.98 (inc VAT) HERE.

Pros

• Overall performance.
• Capacity.
• 5-year warranty.

Cons

• Tested 4K performance couldn’t match the official maximum figures.
• Pricey.

KitGuru says: Kingston's Fury Renegade G5 is already a very good drive, combining speed, power conservation and cool running. Now it comes with a huge capacity option.

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