SSD
2TB Kingston Fury Renegade M.2 PCIe 4.0
Another Kingston pick, our SSD for this build is none other than the Fury Renegade PCIe 4.0 SSD. This is by far one of the most impressive PCIe 4.0 drives we’ve tested, even beating the Crucial T500 in a number of our real-world tests (in fact, it actually beats some PCIe 5.0 drives we’ve used, too, but more on that another time).
Initially designedthe Fury Renegade absolutely dominates in both sequential and real-world performance. It utilizes a curious mix of 176-layer TLC from Micron, alongside a Phison E18 controller, but the more impressive addition is a full-sized DDR4 chip acting as a cache, which really helps accelerate speeds.
