I have been searching the web for any information on the P7N Diamond's (or any other 780i based motherboard) support for running multiple Areca PCIe RAID cards.

I haven't found much information so far, but I'm worried because of problems other motherboards (with different chipsets) have had running RAID cards in some of the PCIe slots. It seems that many of the manufacturers have coded their BIOS in such a way that the PCIe 16x slots work reliably only for graphics cards (even though the whole point of PCIe is supposed to be a unified interface for any type of device).

Can anyone here comment on experiences running multiple PCIe RAID cards (especially Areca cards)? I would love to get this board if I could run 1 graphics card and three Areca RAID cards (like the ARC-1220).

Any info would be greatly appreciated.