Tuesday, April 1st 2025
Kingston Fury Renegade G5 SSD Series Leaked, PCIe Gen 5 Design Boasts 14,800 MB/s Max. Transfers
PC hardware media outlets have uncovered a not yet officially announced Kingston Fury Renegade G5 SSD product family. Promotional images and fairly detailed specifications were reportedly sourced directly from the North American manufacturer's main web presence. Three next-gen PCIe 5.0 SSD options were highlighted; likely coming soon—in quick response to Samsung's recently launched 9100 PRO Series. The South Korean megacorp's cutting-edge proprietary Presto
S4LY027-controlled offerings are considered to be the world's fastest SSDs, but this elite level of performance has arrived with substantial price tags. At several points, W1zzard's evaluation of the $300 Samsung 9100 Pro 2 TB model touched upon cost-performance considerations. Kingston's forthcoming Fury Renegade G5 4 TB, 2 TB, and 1 TB SSD NVMe M.2 2280 SKUs possess the potential to match main rivals—according to a leaked spec chart, the flagship boasts up to 14,800 MB/s read and 14,000 MB/s write speeds.
The apparent selection of Silicon Motion's SM2508 controller is a key point of interest—this "superior performance" low-power PCIe Gen 5 x4 NVMe 2.0 SSD solution was announced late last summer. September preview material painted a promising picture, in terms of promised power efficiency. By late December, a Chinese manufacturer demonstrated 14.5 GB/s sequential reads enabled by Silicon Motion's flagship controller. At CES 2025, TechPowerUp staffers documented a handful of previewed SM2508-controlled commercial products. Returning to the present day, Kingston's inadvertent self-leak did not reveal Fury Renegade G5's eventual launch window or price brackets—these facts are expected to arrive online with a possible imminent issuing of official press material.
Sources:
VideoCardz, OC3D News, Hardware Zone Spain
S4LY027-controlled offerings are considered to be the world's fastest SSDs, but this elite level of performance has arrived with substantial price tags. At several points, W1zzard's evaluation of the $300 Samsung 9100 Pro 2 TB model touched upon cost-performance considerations. Kingston's forthcoming Fury Renegade G5 4 TB, 2 TB, and 1 TB SSD NVMe M.2 2280 SKUs possess the potential to match main rivals—according to a leaked spec chart, the flagship boasts up to 14,800 MB/s read and 14,000 MB/s write speeds.
The apparent selection of Silicon Motion's SM2508 controller is a key point of interest—this "superior performance" low-power PCIe Gen 5 x4 NVMe 2.0 SSD solution was announced late last summer. September preview material painted a promising picture, in terms of promised power efficiency. By late December, a Chinese manufacturer demonstrated 14.5 GB/s sequential reads enabled by Silicon Motion's flagship controller. At CES 2025, TechPowerUp staffers documented a handful of previewed SM2508-controlled commercial products. Returning to the present day, Kingston's inadvertent self-leak did not reveal Fury Renegade G5's eventual launch window or price brackets—these facts are expected to arrive online with a possible imminent issuing of official press material.
24 Comments on Kingston Fury Renegade G5 SSD Series Leaked, PCIe Gen 5 Design Boasts 14,800 MB/s Max. Transfers
There isn’t a 8TB version. Their spec slide clearly says it’s 1, 2 and 4.
Not enough coffee, and too much cross-pollination from looking at many new models.
Most of them of course enterprise drives in U.2 format, and eye watering prices.
If we're waiting for consumer 8 TB drives to fall from where 2 and 4 TB drives are per TB - from above 75 EUR per TB to at least 50 EUR per TB (and it's still more expensive than drives were 2 years ago), U.2 drives for servers that are mostly launching now are at another level. But you can get a 32 TB drive for about 110 EUR per TB (older one, new ones are of course dearer).
Just like the Nvidia's graphics cards, storage makers have found better customers for their products than gamers and home content creators. Days of "PC Master Race" are certainly coming to an abrupt halt.
DirectStorage on Windows looks like a minimum effort job to port the Xbox's code with minimal adjustment for the differences of PC's from consoles.
Three years later and we only have a handful of games with support, most of them don't actually do anything with it, and there was more problems with bugs at implementation than benefits (Monster Hunter Wilds, Spider-Man 2,...).
Also, here's a list of games that have DirectStorage, that are on Steam:
steamdb.info/tech/SDK/DirectStorage/
Point is, the technology is there, but for some reasons they don't want to make drives more than 8TB, even 4, for the general consumers.
I wonder why?
There hasn't been an age in PC with such a stagnation, everything is basically in a standstill, except for marketing blurb speeds "up to", which can't even be realistically reached in home environments (sequential speeds requiring higher queue depth etc)...
There is nothing reasonable to pay 800$ for a crappy 8TB drive. Nothing.Salaries are the same still. ;)