I have an Octa-Capture but upgraded last fall to a Studio-Capture as I needed more than 8 inputs at times. I could have daisy chained two Octa-Captures together but I went for the Studio-Capture.
But, I liked the Octa-Capture and Craig Anderton wrote a glowing evaluation (next best thing to girls LOL) on Harmony Central.
Prior to the Octa-Capture, I had a Focusrite Saffire Pro 40. The Saffire Pro 40 gets good reviews and I thought it was great. However, the Octa-Capture's preamps are as good or better and the Octa-Capture's Limiter function is a plus.
My Octa-Capture worked on both Win 7 and Win 8.1, however I had to get the updated Win 8.1 driver from Roland.