This year, several PCIe 5.0 solid-state drives have been released, most of which boast nominal speeds around 14500MB/s, all being “full-blooded” products. If users want to purchase a product that balances performance and longevity, which one should they choose? There may not be many options; currently, the only consumer-grade PCIe 5.0 SSD with a long lifespan is the Kingston FURY Renegade G5, abbreviated as Renegade G5. Its 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB models have write endurance of 1000TB, 2000TB, and 4000TB respectively, while other PCIe 5.0 SSDs with 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB capacities generally have write endurance of 600TB, 1200TB, and 2400TB. This means that if a user writes 1TB of data daily, it would take nearly 11 years of continuous writing to exhaust the lifespan of the Renegade G5 4TB. The reason lies in the fact that the Renegade G5 utilizes high-quality 218-layer stacked 3D TLC NAND flash chips, and the SSD also features an impressive 12-layer PCB design.
To deliver powerful performance, the Renegade G5 is equipped with the SM2508 8-channel PCIe 5.0 controller chip from Silicon Motion, which includes four processor cores based on the ARM Cortex-R8 architecture, operating at frequencies exceeding 1.2GHz. It also employs a dedicated cache design, paired with Micron LPDDR4 memory chips as cache to store the FTL mapping table that records data locations, which can enhance the SSD’s read and write efficiency. The combination of a high-performance controller, dedicated cache, and 218-layer stacked 3D TLC NAND flash allows the Renegade G5 to achieve a nominal sequential read speed of up to 14800MB/s and a sequential write speed of 14000MB/s. So how does this product perform in real-world applications? We specifically tested the Renegade G5 4TB using a top-tier AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D processor, GeForce RTX 5090 D graphics card, and Kingston FURY Super Beast DDR5 memory kit with a CL latency of only 30; let’s find out the results from this video review.
▲The packaging of the Kingston FURY Renegade G5 SSD is very understated, but the “14800MB/s” on the top of the box is strikingly prominent.
▲The appearance of the Kingston FURY Renegade G5 SSD is similar to previous PCIe 4.0 products, but the PCIe 5.0 NVMe M.2 label in the lower right corner highlights its differences.
▲The structure of the Kingston FURY Renegade G5 SSD 4TB is quite simple, consisting of a Silicon Motion SM2508 PCIe 5.0 controller chip, two 3D TLC NAND flash chips, and a 4GB Micron LPDDR4 memory chip.
▲The main technical specifications of the three different capacity Kingston FURY Renegade G5 SSDs show that their TBW write endurance is higher than that of similar products.
Friendly Reminder
MCer, please note that due to adjustments in the recommendation mechanism of WeChat public accounts, if you find it difficult to see articles pushed by the Microcomputer public account recently, but you do not want to miss the exciting review content of the microcomputer, you can take a moment to set Microcomputer as astarredpublic account!
