Kingston FURY Renegade 4000GB

The Kingston FURY Renegade (PCIe 5.0 variant) uses the Phison PS5026-E26 controller paired with Micron’s 232-layer 3D TLC NAND running at a 2400 MT/s interface speed to saturate the PCIe 5.0 x4 bus. The drive includes a dedicated LPDDR4 DRAM cache to manage logical-to-physical mapping tables for high random I/O performance and consistent latency during extended transfers. Under load it generates significant thermal energy; passive motherboard heatspreaders are often insufficient and active cooling or a high-mass heatsink is required to prevent thermal throttling (typically around 80°C). The 4000GB density model also exhibits higher peak power consumption, requiring robust M.2 power delivery from the host system.

Key Specifications

• Interface: PCIe 5.0 x4 (NVMe 2.0)
• Max Sequential Speeds: 14,800 MB/s Read / 14,000 MB/s Write
• Controller: Phison PS5026-E26 (12nm process)
• NAND Flash: Micron 232-layer 3D TLC
• DRAM Cache: LPDDR4 DRAM cache
• Features: Microsoft DirectStorage optimized; Aluminum heatsink required for operation
• Thermal: Generates significant heat under load; passive cooling often insufficient; active cooling or high-mass heatsink required to prevent thermal throttling around 80°C
• Power: High-capacity E26 drives have higher peak power and require robust M.2 power delivery from the host

Hardware Alternatives

• Crucial T705 4000GB: Uses the same Micron 232-layer NAND and E26 controller tuned for the 14GB/s threshold.
• Corsair MP700 PRO SE 4000GB: Another direct hardware relative utilizing the same E26 platform and similar cooling requirements.
• MSI Spatium M570 Pro: Shares the underlying architecture, differing primarily in the included cooling solution (frozr heatsink) and firmware versioning.