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Network Redundancy: How to Prevent Single Points of Failure
17 Jul, 2025







£1340.18 inc. VAT
AI-generated summary
Kingston’s FURY Renegade 128GB DDR4 kit is the sort of “boring-but-reliable” memory upgrade that makes sense when you *actually* need a lot of RAM and you want something mainstream from a vendor resellers can support easily. For a UK B2B environment—virtualisation hosts, in-memory databases, heavy VDI, large CAD/CAE sessions, or memory-hungry build servers—this kind of capacity can be a real cost saver versus adding more nodes. The pricing at £1116.53 ex‑VAT is only justifiable if you’re filling the slots anyway; if you’re not going to use the capacity, it’s money that would be better spent on faster I/O, storage performance, or even fewer, more capable systems.
The reason I’d be cautious is that DDR4 is now “mature,” and many new platforms are moving on. If you’re on a modern server that already has DDR4 slots filled or you’re building something new, I’d double-check the platform roadmap and whether you’ll be able to carry this upgrade forward. Also, a kit like this is best bought with confidence that your motherboard/server is happy with high-density DIMM population—don’t assume every board behaves the same just because it’s Kingston. If you’re already matched to the right platform and you genuinely need the capacity, it’s a solid buy; if you’re upgrading out of general performance anxiety, I’d look at smaller capacity or a platform-wide upgrade first.

Kingston
Kingston FURY Renegade - DDR4 - module - 8 GB - DIMM 288-pin - 3600 MT/s / PC4-28800 - CL16 - 1.35 V - unbuffered - non-ECC - black

Kingston
Kingston FURY Renegade - DDR5 - module - 16 GB - DIMM 288-pin - 7200 MT/s / PC5-57600 - CL38 - 1.45 V - on-die ECC

Lenovo
Lenovo TruDDR4 - DDR4 - module - 32 GB - DIMM 288-pin - 2933 MT/s / PC4-23400 - 1.2 V - registered - ECC - for ThinkSystem SR635 7Y99, SR655 7Z01

HP
HP - DDR5 - module - 32 GB - SO-DIMM 262-pin - 4800 MHz / PC5-38400 - unbuffered - non-ECC - for Elite 600 G9, 800 G9, Mini Conference G9, Workstation Z2 G9