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storage Solution/File shares

our network is made up of about 8 windows servers.  
2008 2
2003 6
dc's are 2003

most of our servers have file shares and its becoming a pain to remember where everything is and making sure everthing is backed up.  i dont think our organization is in need of a san.  not sure.  can i get some good suggestions for a rock solid central repository for all our shared data.  doesnt have to be extremely fast because i plan on keeping databases and email on the servers that do the processing.  pretty much big file shares and repositories.  uptime and manageability most important.  backing up all that stuff.
i have huge sata drives off site and lan speed to them to transfer backup to disk files.  i just need a big storage unit that is fairly fast and reliable and EASY to manage at the NOS.  
thanks for the advice
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get rid of windows O/S and run solaris on those machines and take advantage of ZFS.  Hot snapshot backups, clustering, redundancy, incredible performance, n-way RAID, mix and match any type of storage, iSCSI targets, SMB/CIFS, rock solid.
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the tech support crew here isnt going to learn solaris based equipment.  something that integrates nicely with windows.
im sure it integrates nicely but....
we want something that is familar
i need something that is going to be around 3k also.
i just spec'd out something from hp that cost 25k.  i was like whoa........

3 to 4 k.....
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With only $3K - $4K then it just isn't going to happen unless you buy a piece of used junk on ebay or use your existing hardware and deploy solaris ... sorry.
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