The Renegade is a PCIe 4.0 based M.2 SSD based on the Phision E18 controller and today I’m going to check out what the new drive is all about testing it out on our recently updated Z690 test bench and test suite.

With that, they have slowly been introducing new products under the brand including their latest gaming-focused M.2 SSD that they are calling the Fury Renegade.

With that brand gone, they did need to make a new gaming brand for their memory and SSD product lines and they went with one of the model names of their past memory kits for something short and sweet, the new brand is called FURY.

To me, it's the difference between having a 'health screen' as opposed to extensive lab tests (as ordered/prescribed by a knowledgeable/registered physician.ĭiagnostics provided by the drive manufacturers.offer/provide the ability to run functional tests on drives that is more extensive.and more reliable, IMO, because these diagnostics were developed by the drive manufacturers.who certainly should know the most precise, most reliable methods of determining the functional status of their products.The big news earlier this year was the sale of HyperX which has been Kingston’s long time gaming lineup to HP. I use such tools in the same manner that I use a smoke alarm in my apartment.to alert me when there is a situation that I might want to be concerned about.ĭiagnostics, on the other hand, are designed to test the functional status of a hard careful testing which takes more than the time it might take to look at a simple screen (as provided by Crystal Disk) and determine the functional status of a drive. IMO.Crystal Disk and such.are designed to monitor the status of hard drives.which says to me that such are intended to be 'early warning', not diagnostics.

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