Low cost storage options

Hi,
We are new to grid etc. We are a little frustrated at the costs involved in setting up shared storage with expandability.
We want to use commodity hardware for our servers.
We want to be able to add additional storage when space becomes an issue.
I have read that using NFS and/or Firewire is not a suitable production solution.
Does anybody have a low cost, commodity hardware storage solution?
Thanks
Ben

go for AX100.
Source : www.dell.com .... The award-winning Dell/EMC AX100 and the new Dell/EMC AX100i are designed to bring customers an easy-to-use, low-cost SAN solution. The AX100 and the AX100i are ideal storage arrays for small workgroups, medium-sized businesses or branch offices of large corporations.
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