Specification
| Form factor | M.2 2280 |
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x4 NVMe |
| Capacities | 1TB, 2TB, 4TB |
| Controller | SM2508 |
| NAND | 3D TLC |
| Sequential read/write | 1TB – 14,200/11,000MB/s 2TB – 14,700/14,000MB/s 4TB – 14,800/14,000MB/s |
| Random 4K read/write | 1TB – up to 2,200,000/1,000,000 IOPS 2TB – up to 2,200,000/2,200,000 IOPS 4TB – up to 2,200,000/2,200,000 IOPS |
| Total Bytes Written (TBW) | 1TB – 1.0 PBW 2TB – 2.0 PBW 4TB – 4.0 PBW |
| Power consumption | 1024GB – 0.27W avg / 6.6W @ 14.2G / 6.6W (MAX) 2048GB – 0.27W avg / 7.0W @ 14.7G / 7.0W (MAX) 4096GB – 0.27W avg / 7.1W @ 14.8G / 9.5W (MAX) |
| Storage temperature | -40°C~85°C |
| Operating Tempetemperaturerature | 0°C~70°C |
| Dimensions | 80mm x 22mm x 2.3mm |
| Weight | 1024GB – 7.3g 2048GB-4096GB – 7.7g |
| Vibration operating | 2.17G peak (7-800Hz) |
| Vibration non-operating | 20G peak (20-1000Hz) |
| MTBF | 2,000,000 hours |
| Warranty/Support | Limited 5-year warranty with free technical support |
Features
The Renegade G5 SSD is far from anything already available in Kingston’s offering. The new SSD is the fastest and one of the coolest-running models, perfect for all computers, including laptops and PS5 consoles.
The Renegade G5 offers sequential bandwidth up to 14.8GB/s and 2.2M IOPS. There is no faster SSD on the current consumer market. That’s not all, as the new SSD has the highest TBW factor—4PBW for the 4TB version. It will be hard to reach it on any home computer. On the other hand, the warranty is limited to the written data (the mentioned 4PB) or five years. Either way, it’s a lot.
The SSD supports all the latest technologies to improve stability, data protection, and performance. At least for now, it’s one of the fastest SSDs available in stores.
Below is a screenshot from the AIDA64 diagnostic screen showing additional details about the SSD.
Kingston provides SSD Manager software that checks the SSD’s health and lets us update its firmware. The tested SSD was provided before the premiere with the latest available firmware. There were no issues with the tested sample.
Below is a screenshot from CrystalDiskInfo, one of the most popular universal diagnostic programs. The SSD arrived in perfect condition with 0TB written.
Depending on the load, the drive’s temperature is typically between 40-52°C. The maximum specified temperature is 70°C, so we can expect that the throttling point is not much above that, typically around 75°C. However, our tests haven’t seen thermal throttling, even with the extended AIDA64 with random writes. The SSD is perfect even for laptops, but barely supports PCIe 5.0, so we must remember that the performance will be lower.
The declared wattage is about 2W lower than competitive PCIe 5.0 SSDs – around 10W. This is a huge difference, but still quite a high value. Even though it’s more than a typical PCIe 4.0 SSD, the temperature is surprisingly low and lower than any other SSD series with DRAM cache. Only DRAM-less PCIe 4.0 SSDs run cooler.
