INTRODUCTION

    It may have taken quite a while, but Gen5 SSDs are finally about to arrive in numbers due to the introduction of new NAND controllers that have all but eliminated the rather significant temperature issues encountered with the initial models. Yes, it may take a bit of time, but these controllers (and their successors) will allow manufacturers to not only release faster models (especially in sustained speeds due to absence of thermal throttling) but also more durable and in even higher capacities. The FURY Renegade G5 is among the first Gen5 SSDs to get released with one such controller and today with me I have the 2TB capacity model.

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    The brand new FURY Renegade G5 M.2 PCIe Gen5 SSD is based on the latest SM2508 NVMe 2.0 controller by Silicon Motion (6nm lithography) which for the 2TB capacity Kingston has paired with 2GB LPDDR4 DRAM (4266MT/S) by Micron and 218-layer 3D TLC NAND (Kingston branded - probably BiCS8 by KIOXIA). The Silicon Motion SM2508 NVMe 2.0 controller features an quad-core ARM Cortex R8 CPU with support for 4 PCIe lanes of 32Gb/s data transfer speed (Gen5 x4), 8 NAND channels with a speed of up to 3600MT/s per channel and packs various technologies including end to end data path protection, programmable firmware interface, SRAM ECC & CRC parity, Innovative LDPC ECC engine, embedded programmable RAID, real-time full-drive AES 128/256bit encryption, hardware SHA 256/384 and TRNG, secure boot for FW authentication, built-in smart clock-gating mechanism (highly efficient power consumption), ONFI 5.0 and Toggle 5.0 support and TCG Opal 2.0 compliance. Moving to endurance Kingston reports an MTBF (meantime between failures) of 2 million hours and TBW of 1000/2000/4000 for the available models (1/2/4TB). So, let's see what the latest FURY Renegade G5 Gen5 SSD by Kingston is capable of.