New Kingston Fury Renegade G5 8 Tb Nvme SSD Review 2025

8 TB of PCIe 5.0 storage comes with a colossal price tag, but thanks to an incredible hardware combo, the G5 delivers some chart-topping exemplary performance for the cost.

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I think I've tested every single combination of controller and NAND flash found in all of the top-end PCIe 5.0 SSDs at this point. At least all of them, trying to match or break parity with Sandisk's WD SN8100, that is, all pinching a little bit of the drive's tech while they do it. Yet this is the first SSD I've found that kind of does manage to do that, yet in a very weird, roundabout way.

This latest batch of Kingston Fury Renegade G5 drives, including this particularly boisterous 8 TB unit we have on display here, touts exactly the same NAND flash and controller combo as found in the SN8100. But, of course, all dressed up in a Kingston skirt. And I'll be frank, it works really, really well. Arguably unsurprisingly, given it's the same hardware combo that catapulted the SN8100 into our best SSD list.

It's been well documented at this point just how good that SSD is; nonetheless, we've not yet seen it in an 8 TB capacity, which is exactly what Kingston is bringing to the table here. Perhaps there's no market demand for it as far as Sandisk is concerned, perhaps it's tariffs getting in the way, or it got sidetracked by its weird and wonderful breakup with WD, but Kingston's taken that same tech and ramped it all the way up to 11, increasing capacity, delivering in some areas, and falling short in others.

So, unlike the Kioxia Exceria Plus G4, which had the same 218-layer BiCS8 TLC NAND but a different controller, or the Acer Predator GM9000, which had the same Silicon Motion SM2508 controller but different NAND, the G5 unabashedly has both as standard. A clone of its SN8100 father. And it's that 218-layer BiCS8 NAND that's the driving force behind this drive—particularly the density.

Capacity: 8 TBInterface: PCIe 5.0 x4Memory controller: Silicon

Source: PC Gamer