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Kingston Fury Renegade G5 8TB SSD Review

5 décembre 2025 à 10:00

When we looked at Kingston's Fury Renegade G5, the company's first Gen 5 drive in early 2025, the largest capacity available at launch was the 4TB flagship model. Skip ahead seven months, and that capacity limit has been doubled with the latest addition to the lineup, the 8TB Fury Renegade G5.

Kingston's Fury Renegade G5 uses a Silicon Motion SM2508 controller combined with 218-layer 3D TLC NAND. There is also an LGDDR4-4266 DRAM cache IC.

The quoted sequential read/write performance figures for the drive are the same as the 4TB model – up to 14,800MB/s reads and up to 14,000MB/s for writes.

As for 4K random performance, the 8TB drive has the same 2,200K IOPS read figure as the rest of the range, with a write figure of up to 2,200K IOPS, the same as the rest of the Fury Renegade G5 family, except for the 1TB model.

Power consumption for the 8TB model is officially quoted as 0.27W average and 7.5W maximum. Kingston quotes an endurance figure for the 8TB drive as 8.0PB, and they back the drive with a 5-year warranty.

Physical Specifications:

Usable Capacities: 8TB.
NAND Components: 218-layer 3D TLC NAND.
NAND Controller: Silicon Motion SM2508.
Cache: LGDDR4-4266.
Interface: PCIe Gen 5 x4, NVMe 2.0.
Form Factor: M.2, 2280.
Dimensions: 80 x 22 x 3.65mm.
Drive Weight: 9.2g.

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ADATA XPG Mars 980 Blade 2TB SSD Review

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Par :Simon Crisp

2 décembre 2025 à 10:18

The latest Gen 5 SSD from ADATA sits under the company's XPG gaming brand. The XPG Mars 980 Blade is ADATA's second generation of Gen 5 drives, offering speeds of up to 14,000MB/s for reads and 13,000MB/s for writes. We review the 2TB model priced at just under £200 here in the UK.

ADATA's latest family of Gen 5 drives, the XPG Mars 980, is available in two versions: the PRO with active cooling and the passively cooled Blade and in three capacities: 1TB, 2TB and a flagship 4TB drive. The drive ADATA supplied for review is a 2TB Blade model.

For the XPG Mars 980 Blade, ADATA are using a Silicon Motion SM2508 controller teamed up with 232-layer NAND, and the drive uses a 2GB LPDDR4 DRAM IC.

The 2TB drive is rated as up to 14,000MB/s for Sequential reads, and incidentally, all three drives in the range get this rating. The 2TB and 4TB drives get a Sequential write rating of 13,000MB/s, while the 1TB drive gets 10,000MB/s.

The 2TB drive gets the fastest 4K read rating of the range of up to 2,000,000 IOPS. The 1TB entry model gets up to 1,600,000 IOPS, and the 4TB, 1,950,000 IOPS. 4K writes are rated as up to 1,650,000 IOPS for all three drives.

The 2TB XPG Mars 980 Blade endurance is rated as up to 1,480TBW, and ADATA backs the drive with a five-year limited warranty.

Physical Specifications:

Usable Capacities: 2TB.
NAND Components: 232-layer 3D TLC NAND.
NAND Controller: Silicon Motion SM2508.
Cache: 2GB LPDDR4-2666MHz.
Interface: PCIe Gen 5 x4, NVMe 2.0.
Form Factor: M.2, 2280.
Dimensions: 80 x 22 x 4.5mm (with heatsink), 80 x 22 x 3.2mm (without).
Drive Weight: 12g (with heatsink), 8g without.

Firmware Version: Y0508B.

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