Sata drives can be used with the DX8000 but require an adapter card (IDE to SATA). Since this configuration will not permit installing the cover, as the connectors stick up to high, we mount the SATA drive on a plastic 5 1/4" tray underneath the DVD. We have found that this setup is not real happy with Seagate drives but works well with Toshiba or WD. Also, to the best of my knowledge, the sysem will not work with drives larger that 2TB. The last few units we have built used a smaller IDE boot drive. Hope this helps.
Once the system boots you must go back to Windows to partition and format the SATA drive. Then go back to DX8000 and allocate.
