Can you expand a RAID 5 on an MSI K9N Platinum mainboard?

Greetings,
I'm planning on buying a MSI K9N Platinum mainboard for the purpose of a HTPC with plenty of storage. I was planning on buying either 3 500GB drives or 3 750 GB drives as budget allows. Since this board holds 6 SATA II connections it is ideal for adding more disks later when prices drop a bit. I would like to use RAID5 for data protection and am wondering if I can expand the raid partition later when I add more drives to the PC.
Thanks!
Best,
Glenn

D/L and print out the nvidia mediashield 5.0 user guide.
All your options should be documented in this:
http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/nForce/9.53/NVMediaShield_UGv5.pdf

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