Server vs Desktop

Hello everyone, this is my first post. I apologize if my English is not perfect. I'm already using a nas with openmediavault installed by me. I just love it and I would like to turn now to an even better system.
First of all I post a photo to show you the result i'd like to reach.

A mid tower case with 9 exposed 5.25 inches slots populated by 3x 3x5.25 to 5x3.5 hdd ages for a total of 15 hard drives.
At the moment I have two motherboards that I could use for this new project.

• Desktop ASUS M2N32 SLI Deluxe Wi-Fi edition, CPU AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+, 4x2GB DDR2 800 MHz in dual channel (support for ECC memories also)[/*]
• Server HP ProLiant ML110 G5, CPU Intel Xeon 3065, 4x2GB DDR2 ECC 800 MHz in dual channel.[/*]

Which of these two motherboards you think it is best to realize my project?
How can I reach the number of 15 sata ports?
The hardware raid does not interest me.

Thank you very much.

Thanks for the tip. What is your opinion about the questions that I did?
Do you think I should edit the post by inserting the features (chipset, number of sata ports, number and type of pciex and pci slots) of the motherboard?

Zitat von "davidh2k"

Can you give me more details about the case and the hotswap hdd cases ?

Greetings
David

Case is a Nexus Prominent 9 and the hotswap hdd cages are 3 Norco SS-500.

Hello! Despite the Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe is a great motherboard, I have decided that I will start to use first the ProLiant ML110 G5 server motherboard. Simply becuase I think they are more reliable. The motherboard has an internal USB female connector that i will use, via a sata to usb adapter, for the sistem disk. There are also 6 SATA II connectors and in this way I can get to 7 hard drives. There are also 4 expansion slots: 1 PCIex 1x populated with an Intel Gigabit NIC, 1 PCIex 1x populated with another Intel Gigabit NIC, a free PCIex 8x and a free PCI 32bit 33MHz 3.3V.
Now, which is the best solution to add 8 more sata ports? Thank You

Zitat von "tekkbebe"

Just want to back what Aaron said, if you can't get your hands on the Nexus case the Antec 900 would be a good substitute.

Yes, there are a "lot" of mid tower whit 9x5,25 bays but I really dont'like the windowed side panel of the Antec 900... maybe for a full modded desktop... but not for my NAS.

Zitat von "davidh2k"

Had a look at those norco 500. 135$ ? So thats the price for 5bay hotswap... Also you most likely have to mod your case to remove the drive holder tongues.
Greetings
David

I found them at 89,99$ each but I'm still searching and evaluating other solutions and other makes and or models. I'm ready to mod all the necessary to fit all my specs for this NAS.

Greetings