I Built a Janky Computer for William Osman!

Linus hooked up with William Osman to engineer the wildest portable, high-capacity NAS rig in ages—affectionately nicknamed the A.S.S.—so Will can stuff it full of Open Sauce video footage. They squeezed in beefy hardware like an ASRock Rack AM5D4ID-2T/BCM mini-ITX server board, a Ryzen 9 9950X3D, a mix of NVMe SSDs (up to 15.36 TB each) plus 18 TB hard drives, all powered by a sleek 500 W GaN PSU. Chaos ensues as cables tangle and parts drop, but the result is a surprisingly compact storage beast ready for big-time video capture.

Between paint splatters and second-NAS antics, the duo tours Will’s workshop, debates optimal drive layouts, and even throws in Linus’s “paint tips” before the grand reveal at OpenSauce. The endgame? A janky-looking, yet brutally capable, video storage solution that’s as entertaining to build as it is to watch.

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