Maybe look at : http://www.openfiler.com/

It's a CentOS (based on the source RedHat releases) solution but it may be too techy - not sure

If you are going for a linux based solution then I'm honestly not sure that hardware based raid is easier to setup though - anyhow, yell (or PM) if you need anything.
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