Packaging

The Drive

The drive uses the M.2 2280 form factor, making it 22 mm wide and 80 mm long.


While most other M.2 NVMe SSDs transfer data over the PCI-Express 3.0 x4 interface, the Fury Renegade connects to the host system using PCI-Express 4.0 x4, doubling the theoretical bandwidth.


On the PCB you'll find the controller and eight flash chips, two DRAM cache chips are installed, too.


Kingston's heatsink is pretty awesome. It looks great thanks to a matte surface coating. Grooves have been cut out to improve heat transfer to the surrounding air. Unlike many other vendors, Kingston uses screws to attach the heatsink, which makes sure it stays firmly in place.


The heatsink uses the typical approach with a clamshell construction holding the PCB in-between two metal pieces that have thermal pads between them.

Chip Component Analysis

The Phison PS5018-E18 is Phison's PCI-Express 4.0 controller with eight channels. It is produced on TSMC's 12 nanometer node and uses five Arm Cortex R5 CPU cores. The E18 supports NVMe 1.4, TLC, DDR4 memory, and up to 32 dies.


The eight flash chips are Micron 176-layer 3D TLC NAND B47R. Kingston buys the wafers in bulk, tests and processes the chips, and packages them with their own branding.


Two Kingston DDR4-2666 chips provide a total of 2 GB of fast DRAM storage for the controller to store the mapping tables.