Questions about Kingston FURY Renegade

This is absolutely no problem and will probably be the case with 99% of M.2 SSDs. I would rather give it a wide berth if this is not the case ;-) No plug-in card with M.2 connector needs all contacts. From a design point of view, it is easier and cleaner to make all the contacts and simply connect only those that are needed. In the following link you can see what could work with the M.2 connector: https://pinoutguide.com/HD/M.2_NGFF_connector_pinout.shtml

Mine did NOT come with a heat sink, nor a plate or anything like that

根据我们的研究，金士顿 Fury Renegade 是一款双面 M.2 固态硬盘。为了安全起见，我建议你直接向制造商咨询。 According to our research, the Kingston Fury Renegade is a doublesided M.2 SSD. To be on the safe side, I recommend that you check with the manufacturer directly.

Hello, To begin with, there are two basic steps to check (probably already done but who knows.) - in the BIOS (at startup press F2) does it recognise the hard drive? (in the BIOS go to / Advanced > SATA or Disk and look to see if the M.2 is detected. - Some BIOSes need updating too: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/search.html?ws=text#sort=relevancy&layout=table Check that the M.2 disk is properly clipped into the slot (this has already happened to me). Remove and replace it, or change the M.2 slot, If this does not change anything, disable VMD in the BIOS, If this does not change anything, the hard disk may not be mounted (initialised). In Windows, open Disc Manager and initialise the disk, If it is, at worst test it in another PC. Note that the Fury M.2 is PCI Gen 4 and the NUC 11 does not support Gen4 but Gen3. The M.2 Fury will therefore work in Gen3.

I wouldn't buy a dual-sided SSD for the notebook. I don't know the Fury, only the Studio and Firefly and Omen 16, but none of them have a high enough connector and the card can't be installed. I only use single-ended SSDs for notebooks - e.g. Samsung 980.

Hello, I have used this ssd on pc with original heatsink from motherboard and have max 60 degree temp.

This 2TB SSD is dual sided, i.e. it may or may not fit if the installation space is too small. There are also 2TB models that are single sided. Another very good SSD would be the WD Black SN770 with 2TB, which is single sided and very fast for an SSD without DRAM (in some tests even faster than the SN850X). WD Black SN770 (2000 GB, M.2 2280)

This means that the speed of the SSD would be a maximum of 4 Gigabyte/sec...(read/write). This is the limit of the pcie 3.0 x4.

The SSD is downward compatible. This means that if your mainboard only supports PCIe 3, the SSD will only run at this speed. https://www.heise.de/select/ct/2020/24/2014911062765141952 You can find out what your mainboard supports on the manufacturer's support page.

the gk15dk is not a motherboard but a ready to use pc...well your ssd would fit into the asus b550 motherboard in the asus rog strix ga15dk...here more infos about the board...https://www.asus.com/microsite/motherboard/AMD-B550/de/

Have you tried getting into the bios and booting from there?

I read this on the Kingston website as well and unfortunately found no indication if you could extend the read speed with a setting. In this case, I suspect Kingston measured 6,570MB/s on certain files, but not all. It's the highest speed achieved, so to speak, while the PS5 gives 5409MB/s as the average speed. However, Kingston support may know more: https://www.kingston.com/de/support Alternatively, you can try our technical support. To do this, you can enter a request for a technical support appointment in your user account under "Service".