TL;DR

Linus roped in William Osman to throw together a gloriously “janky” portable NAS for his Open Sauce event. Armed with an ASRock Rack mini-ITX board, Ryzen 9 X3D CPU, a stack of 15 TB NVMe SSDs, 18 TB hard drives and more RAM than you can shake a cooling fan at, they build, paint and stress-test the whole rig on camera—complete with the “most painful drop of 2025.”

Once the beast is assembled, they haul it over to Open Sauce, plug it into William’s camera setup and prove it can handle the footage flood. Along the way: paint tips from Linus, behind-the-scenes banter and reminders that no build is complete without a healthy dose of chaos.

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