By the end of 2024, the Renegade series range will be dominated by the now classic M.2 2280 SSD drives, which are equally suitable for memory upgrades in desktop PCs, laptops and ultrabooks. The main condition is that the motherboard supports the NVMe protocol and can work with the latest versions of the PCI-Express interface. At the time of writing this material (May 2024), PCI-E 4.0 and PCI-E 5.0 are current.


In all cases, Kingston Fury Renegade drives guarantee serious data transfer speeds: up to 7300 MB/s for linear write operations and up to 7000 MB/s when reading data from the drive. The speed of working with small blocks of files also does not lag behind, reaching 1000 thousand I/O operations per second. Considering that such high performance can lead to overheating of the device, some Renegade drives are equipped with removable metal radiators.

During production, advanced 176-layer memory from Micron is used, and the drive is usually controlled by flagship multi-channel Phison controllers with a mandatory DRAM buffer, which prevents speed reduction when the device’s cache memory is full. Despite the lack of official certification from Sony, the drive more than meets the requirements of the Sony PS5 game console and can be used as a replacement for the stock drive.