Help with storage solution

[Josh Hazel]

I dont have any experience with RAID or servers, only building personal PCs. Hope someone can help.

I am looking for a good solution for 20 hard drives (all are about 500-750GB each). What is the most cost effective way to hook em up.

I currently have two PC each with 9x hard drive (SATA) and the second pc uses software called "Second Copy" to simulate RAID by copying files (1:1 ratio) to the secondary drives.

 

[[LYL]Homer]

Not necessarily the right solution, but these threads might help you get up to speed on some of the controllers and scale of this type of storage.

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1251660
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=714871&page=22