Maximum no of HDD with RAID in 790FX GD70 ??

Respect to All experts !!
I have 790FX-GD70 in which 6x SATA II ports are provided by ATI SB750 chipset with RAID facility. I am currently using 2x Seagate 500GB in Raid 0.
I want to re-create it with 6x HDDs (Just for benching and self knowledge  as I know performance will not be 6 times faster or even 4 times).
Can ATI SB750 RAID use all 6x SATA ports with Raid 0 ???,
because my friend has an Intel board named P7P55D Pro E and according to him he is restricted to use more than 4 HDD in RAID.

I am using 18 file adapters at sender side .
added 6 more in dev and UAT total 24 working fine in these environemnts..
my file adapters never gave me a problem unless and untill structure problem..
Regards
Rao

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