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SandForce was purchased by LSI quite some time ago. LSI wanted directional control of the silicon to make sure future enhancements fit their needs. That and the fact LSI has always been a storage centric IP/ASIC company, making such an acquisition a perfect fit with their core business. The SF22xx controllers are used in all of LSI's enterprise PCIe SSDs, including the $35K, 3.2TB, model BFH8-3200:

http://www.lsi.com/products/flash-accelerators/pages/nytro-warpdrive-bfh8-3200.aspx#tab/tab0
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/LSI-Nytro-WarpDrive-BFH8-3200-solid-state-drive-3.2-TB-PCI-Express-3/3072358.aspx

If the SandForce controller is good enough for a $35K enterprise device it's more than good enough for your needs. Your shunning of the SF controllers, simply due to low OCZ product quality, is unwarranted. They're one of the two best (Samsung being the other) SSD flash controllers on the planet, hands down. OCZ's problems weren't due to the SF controllers.

LSI, who make the Sandforce chipsets, says otherwise:

http://www.lsi.com/technology/duraclass/Pages/Automatic-Encryption.aspx

Fuse-based OTP (one time programming memory) for unique master key

Hard drive RAID controller: by LSI

System: Dell PE 1950; critical update for the BMC controller.

... BTW: EMS firmware upgrade for the BSM V 2.50 bricked two motherboards. The motherboard for system #1 *may* have had a faulty BMC, however system #2 was working perfectly.

What follows is my opinion but it'll be yours too if you look into things.

Ooh boy, you bought a Dell. Man, oh man. Next time spend a few minutes of research before you invest nontrivial amounts of money in a system.

Years and years ago Dell was one of the best and made excellent systems. Those days came and went. Brand recognition is about the only reason they're still so huge.

System: Dell PE 1950; critical update for the BMC controller.

... BTW: EMS firmware upgrade for the BSM V 2.50 bricked two motherboards. The motherboard for system #1 *may* have had a faulty BMC, however system #2 was working perfectly.

There are plenty of good, quiet PC tower cases with 10 disk slots nowdays, for example the Fractal Design Define XL. Noise should not be a problem this way, if it isn't with your current solution. Migrating your old board into such a spacious case should not be an issue.

Personally, I would try to avoid more than 10 disks for home use because it'll become a hassle replacing the defective ones at some point. With 3TB SATA disks available at the moment, you can get around 24TB with enough redundancy (RAID-5 with 1 spare or RAID-6; "enough" meaning that you don't have to switch it off when 1 disk dies until you can replace it). No redundancy i.e. RAID-0 should be out of the question if you value your data.

To connect and handle the disks, you can look for a SATA RAID controller like the 3ware 9650SE-12ML. It's not cheap - noticeably more expensive than 2-3 additional plain SATA controllers, but easier to handle than software-RAID and bootable (Linux still needs an ugly workaround to boot from software RAID-5). On the other hand, I found it easier to migrate to bigger disks one-by-one using software-RAID than with various (expensive) RAID controllers, but YMMV.

I also have a 3ware card and four 1 TB drives in RAID 5 in my 10.04 desktop PC at home. Some of that space is exported via iSCSI to a couple of Windows boxes. Then I back the RAID array up with a couple of external SATA drives. My wife thinks this is excessive, but I lost a lot of data, once, nothing critical but stuff I cared about, emails and papers from college, pics of friends and family, etc. But when the drive started throwing SMART errors I thought, yup, better go pick up a new drive soon... 3 days later, it was dead.

The irony is that one of my main responsibilities at work is backups, mostly with shell scripts I wrote myself.

Many of you probably have most of your important stuff on one drive that you don't back up. At the very least, pick up an external USB drive and schedule backups for anything you care about.

1 of these http://www.norcotek.com/item_detail.php?categoryid=1&modelno=rpc-4220
1 of these http://www.lsi.com/channel/products/raid_controllers/sata_sas/3ware_9750-8i/index.html
1 quad core Xeon + mobo + 8gigs of ram of your choice
1 of these http://www.chenbro.com/corporatesite/products_detail.php?sku=75
1 of operating system of your choice
20 of these http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=733
and then put on the media software of your choice (mine is ps3 media server)
This is all because my current (6tb) array got filled with media, home movies, tv shows and what have you. So, hopefully ~30tb (raid6 + 2 hotspares) will do the trick for a while.....
Probably WAY overkill for your use, but +hypervisor of your choice, its nice and easy to run as a media server and an ARMAII server or TF2 server....
lastly, check out i-star or istar usa, they have rackmount cases for prettymuch everything. Awesomeness! (50drive case....maybe for my next one, mwahaha)

LSI, http://www.lsi.com/, is so easy to find you do not even have to google to find it. duh.
Oh, sorry, I was assuming the availability of common sense, and this is slashdot.
LSI logic makes the controller chips and adapter cards (HBAs, RAID controllers) which do your hard drive, especially in raid arrays. Have been for years. bigish company has been around for 25 years.