Should have bought 2 of these. Best pc I have owned and I've owned a lot.

Hello, Thank you. Your comments are appreciated. Best Regards.

​Yes it seems to be handshake problems with your TV. It's worth a Google but if you turn either the TV on before pc or other way round (I can't remember now) it won't do it. If you happens turn your TV off and on and it will work.

Seems it needs to be GPT. Ended up putting the drive back in the unit and cloning which was the safest option, although I'm now having to resize the partition afterwards because Easeus didnt give me the option to resize unallocated as part of the clone.

With hindsight that would have been the better option which I might do thinking about it. Its easier to attach the drives to another pc than fiddle about putting all the screws back in on the Acer only to remove them all again, or at least I thought! Thanks for your feedback, appreciated.

I'm replacing the 60gb ssd for a larger ssd and trying to clone using another pc with the source and destination connected, does anyone know which format to use for Windows 10 to initialize the destination drive in drive manager, is it the older MBR or GPT? The new drive size is 240gb. Thanks

Thanks again for the response, will look at doing that

I have 2, the one I am working on for now is the i3. I'll set up the i5 later. The i3 has just 2 drives, one is accessible and the other is in the middle of the internal sandwich block. That said the procedure to open it up is the same. I booted it up, got offered the W10 upgrade agreed to add that later (so it downloads in the background) which logs the motherboard bios or something with Microsoft as eligible for the W10 digital license (auto activation) and then shut it down. Took the unit apart (easy peasy as only a few screws and all screws the same) following the video on youtube by David Harry. Put in a new Samsung 850 SSD in the middle and reassembled & connected to power. Stuck the bootable W10 USB one of the USB3 slots. Switched on. Got some words on the screen at which point it kind of gets stuck. Then shut down or switch off. Then switch on again and this time it finds the USB stick and boots. W10 loads within 10-15mins. The prep was the time consuming bit as the W10 bootable USB took 4.5 hours to download and create using the media creation tool. Then once W10 loaded went to the Windows update tool in Windows 10 Home and downloaded all updates. Installed Kaspersky Internet Security (free from my Barclays account). Then update Kaspersky then loaded Kodi and all the bells and whistles that go with it.

As the i3 only came with 4GB Ram I upgraded that to 8GB whilst I was inside.

I did like the Acer desktop background when I did the first switch on so I need to find that somewhere as the clean build W10 obviously doesn't give you that. I do wonder if any of the bloatware on the original drive is of any use. If anyone has found any of that useful please advise.

Hi thanks for the response, still not got it fixed tho Acer are hopefully sending out free recovery media as it happened in the upgrade. Did you have to take the ssd to follow the instructions or was it just the two hard drives. Really want to get the full storage space.

anyone having problems with this waking to black screen/display issues. Unplugging the HDMI and inserting again seems to fix it, any suggestions?

I had to disable maintenance wake from sleep at 2am also as the pc was always on when I come to it in the morning.

I have no idea what has happened wonder if anyone can help. I put on the revo, i3 4tb version and windows asked me to upgrade to win10 which I accepted for some reason this seems to have deleted everything and now only the 60gb ssd and one of the 2tb hds are showing and when I tried to do a system restore it comes up with your pc needs repaired error code 0xc0000225. Has anyone seen or hear of this or even better know how to fix it

Brilliant, thats even easier than the earlier instructions. I'll give it a go. Thank you

Start machine and make sure you are being offered Win 10 upgrade - this registers your machine with MS so your clean Win10 install will activate

Download Media Creation Tool and create USB - you want the 64bit version

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10

Remove all drives and add new SSD.

Build clean Windows install

Most drivers will install automatically - think I downloaded Intel RST app from Acer.

Re-add disks and configure as standalone.

So long as you leave RAID setting in BIOS you can change config to RAID at a later date - you will lose all data on the disks when you do this, so will need to backup before and restore afterwards.

How do I remove raid. I tried in bios but then wouldn't start up. If I make clean install would it do the trick? Could someone please explain step by step how to do it? Thanks

Got this running as my main machine now - swapped 60GB SSD for 240GB SSD (Samsung 850 Evo), clean rebuild to Windows 10 with no other disks present then added both 2TB drives (not RAID).

I'm really pleased with it - runs faster/ smoother than the Celeron and i3 (both with SSDs as main drive) - no pauses or stutters, happily runs Plex, audio streaming, general usage and does everything I need a desktop machine to do in a small power efficient package.

Still available at this price - I have reported to mods asking for deal to be unexpired

OOS.

Anyone who has the i5 model can you please confirm power usage at idle/load? Also does anyone know if the mini pcie port is empty and can support an ssd? Thanks

How easy is it to remove the RAID setup and use the full 4GB of storage?

Hello, Thank you for that pointer. Interesting.
Best Regards.

Thanks,much appreciated.Probably wont use the ssds raided,just a thought because I could and an inability to leave anything electronic alone.

Anyone know what make/model of either ssd or hdd this setup uses?.Not too fussed about the hdds as I will likely remove them for use elsewhere,got a drawer full of hdds from laptops/desktop over the past few years.I have two sandisk 960gb ssds from the amazon deals,could they be used as a raid pair in this system?.Thanks for any advice.

I'm running the i5 with ssd and 4tb as per this deal. On Windows 8.1 the sound over hdmi was fine. I updated to W10 and no sound. Got error in task bar saying that neither the hdmi audio device not speakers were plugged in. Went to acer site and clicked support. Selected revo one and this presented a list of drivers. I down loaded the chipset drivers and installed but no change. Downloaded the Intel graphics drivers and it warned that they were older than those installed but I went ahead anyway. Bingo souls now back.

I now have an issue with sleep mode. If I put the revo in sleep either via the remote or via the star menu it goes to sleep for around 5 seconds and then returns to desk top.

I've upgraded to W10 and don't have any HDMI sound issues with the i5 model.

Please can you confirm which older driver and is yours this i5 model? Just incase I or others have the same sound issue when upgrading to W10. Thanks

Just fired up again and have no sound over hdmi. Any ideas?

I upgraded windows to 10 and during the process you are asked what you want to keep from your old install. If I remember you can choose to keep all your docs or all your apps or both. The other option is to keep nothing, which is what I did. Although I've not had time to have a proper look at the new install, it appears that all the bloatware has gone.

I've used this method with my other two Revos - both worked fine.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/clean-install-windows-10-the-activation-myth-490599.shtml

Thanks for your replies. I'll take the update path to W10 I'll leave W8 and raid until I need extra storage which could be some time off. Are there particular bloatware apps that are a performance issue as I guess these can be uninstalled via control panel/programs & apps or the W10 equivalent.

Hi, From what I've gathered for a clean install of W10 you will need to purchase a product key but I'm not absolutely 100% on that. Providing you're happy with Win-10 and do not want to roll-back the OS to Win-8.1 you can delete the Windows.old folder which takes up a huge amount of space.
Here's the instructions I'd followed (were spot on):
http://www.cnet.com/uk/how-to/how-to-delete-the-windows-old-folder-from-windows-10/
Should there be a possibility of being able to clean install Win-10 without needing to purchase a product-key and effectively still qualify for a free upgrade I'd really like to know how to go about doing this please.
Hope this helps.

PS Still having issues with my Celeron unit whereby waking from sleep basically doesn't happen unless the hdmi cable is unplugged and plugged back in again. This is frustrating. Downloaded the graphics driver from the Acer website last-night without avail (think it'd installed an older version than what was already installed during the Win-10 upgrade). Basically only the cursor along with a black background can be seen. No desktop and no icons. The machine hasn't frozen completely as the cursor moves as expected. Unplugging hdmi wakes the device up. A pain but no doubt there's a reasonably straight forward fix for this. Hope so anyway. Any help/suggestions on this would be appreciated. Thank you.

Raid app is built in in sys tray. I'm weighing up whether to keep the Raid for the moment until I need more space. I must admit I haven't looked into disabling it yet until I understand it better, all new to me on a desktop. I'm doing an upgrade from existing install and will probably delete Windows.old to reclaim space. I believe the bios has the serial so you should be able to do a fresh upgrade.

Is the intel rapid storage technology app that you mention included with the Acer or does it need to be downloaded and if so, please can you provide a link to the apt app for this model.

Am I correct in thinking that if said app is used to switch from Raid to Ahci it will boot without issue?

How do I achieve a full clean installation of W10 free of charge from Microsoft. Am I required to create a DVD/USB stick to execute the W10 install on boot up and if so how? I thought the free upgrade to W10 was just an upgrade on top of an existing windows installation so if you try a clean installation yourself you would need a key to activate it?

Thanks

Thanks very much for the advice, some very useful info that should save a lot of hassle.

Drives can be removed from RAID pairing using Intel Rapid Storage Technology app - if you change setting in BIOS from RAID to AHCI then machine will not boot.

Worth clean rebuild when upgrading to W10 - if you don't W8 install is retained as Windows.Old folder and takes up 15GB - quite a lot on a 60GB drive.

Mine arrived today, very impressed especially as its so small. Looks like the 2TB x 2TB is configured as Raid because I can only see one drive in explorer apart from the 60gb ssd. I take it that you can set it in the bios to de-activate the raid config so that you can use both 2tbs as normal storage? I have no use for Raid as I backup my data externally.

Arrived with a remote control but using with wireless mouse and keyboard so no issues. What I am thoroughly impressed with is that this is so quiet!

I cannot even hear it and its a lot quieter than the Gigabyte Brix 1900 that I was previously impressed with on the noise levels which is saying something. Well worth the money so far, if I had the cash I'd upgrade my other media centers to this. I'm surprised that average users still buy large desktops nowadays if not gaming. Upgrading to Win 10 though as Win 8 looks dated in comparison.

Set it up to Wake on Lan (option in the BIOS) - you can then wake from shutdown using your phone ( I use this app - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.benfinnigan.wol).

Or use the included remote - the power button will start the PC from shutdown, but you'll lose use of one of your USB ports.

Had a little play with mine last night. (that sounds very wrong!)

Upgraded to Windows 10. The windows update on 8.1 did not appear to be working (it said it was downloading the windows 10 files, but there was no network activity) so I went to the MS website and started the process from there.

I did a clean install, keeping nothing from the 8.1 setup, so that has got rid of the acer bloatware nonsense.

I love the rapid start-up with the SSD. I've never used a machine with SSD before, what a difference! I'd guess from power on to desktop was around 15s, which compared to my old revo 3700 is light speed (I got into the habit of turning the thing on a good 10 mins before wanting to use it!).

The location of the power button is a real design flaw (putting it on the rear of the unit). I'm thinking that I'll end up putting it into sleep mode so that I don't need to access the power button. Why not put it on the front?

Over all seems a great little machine, with an unbeatable spec for the price.

My Tesco i3 version will be going back unopened, I'm keeping my i5 with SSD!

Cool, this will go well with my £7.50 white Logitech K400+ couple of months ago.:smiley: Seems bit silly not to include wireless mouse & keyboard & remote as a complete package.

Can this be upgraded to W10 for free?

45 units left in stock.

Apologies for my ignorance but I'd understood from advertising from the manufacturer that these can be used as a NAS box (whilst not being used as a Windows box - effectively powered down but not entirely). Anyone know how this works please? Do you need to just map to the ip address of your machine on others on your network (as for setting up shared folders, configuring file permissions etc. I've no idea how to go about this tbh). Hope am not barking up the wrong tree. The manuals that ship with these seem to be very sparse. Probably deliberately but they leave you with a lot of guessing to do. Still chuffed to bits with this kit though. Not used RC. Understand they're not considered to be very popular but you don't have to use this at a guess. Thank you for any help/suggestions.

This i5 5250U ( DT.SYYEK.013) and Celeron 2957U (DT.SYUEK.005) came with remote control.

i3 4005u (DT.SZMEK.011) came with wireless mouse and keyboard

How easy is it to upgrade the SSD in this - I usually simply clone the existing SSD onto the larger one but can that be done easily on this??

Also how easy is it to swap the 2tb drives out for larger drives?? Could I put say my 8TB and 4TB internals into this and use it as a kick-ass media player that can be tucked behind my TV??

Hi, Thanks for your reply. Yes please advise what the URLs are that you'd found. I'm not experienced with Hackintosh installs but gave Mavericks a try on the Celeron version of this machine that I'd bought and it'd run quite well to be fair. Getting El Capitan to run would've been an achievement but there are hardware limitations by the sound of things. Still think these are fantastic little machines.

Hello, I did find some info on two sites regarding setting up El-Cap on such models, where the differentiating element seems to be the GFX i.e HD 5x00. I couldn't really understand it fully as im very inexperienced with Mac-ifying. But sounds like you may well be more comfortable with it. If you interested I can forward you the links I found ?

I know lots of people are using this as a media, RAID or VMS server. But has anyone any experience or knowledge of Mac-ifying this little baby ? I would feinetly get one if that was a definite =)

Just taken delivery. Can confirm that it does not come with keyboard or mouse, just with the remote thingy

Hi, Does anyone on here have issues with their RL85 not waking up from sleep correctly please? Basically the Celeron version that I'd bought won't wake up properly unless the HDMI lead is removed and put back in again (currently trying another HDMI lead though). What happens is the mouse cursor only appears on a black background. Nothing else can be seen - No desktop, no shortcuts etc. Possibly a driver issue not sure. Thank you.

I feel your pain. I don't need it either. Already have a plex server but its huge! I've not seen anything this size with the storage options, best you get is an Intel NUC with the option for an ssd and one 2.5" and will cost more than this...

Going to use this in the office, as space is limited, for Plex, network storage and the occasional bit of lightroom. Worth noting the Intel HD5500 is a big step up from the i3 4th gen graphics too, so can play lots of the older games fine.

I got the baby version in the Ebuyer Black Friday deals, (Celeron, 4Gb RAM, 1Tb HD for £99), popped in a spare SSD with Win 10 and it fulfils its media pc role perfectly. I don't use the remote that comes with it as I already had a wireless keyboard. This is a great deal if you need a bit of extra oomph for games

Agreed no price for the two storage drives in that costing. The cheapest is £340 with the two 2tb drives included. It's also worth noting that the system build does not include the 60gb ssd that you get with the aver or the os or keyboard/mouse or the remote (which is crap by all accounts).

No this acer is a good deal. Mine arrives today along with the i3 version from Tesco.

I was going to send this one back and keep the i3 as the machine is destined to replace my old revo 3700 (atom d525) that I use for media and light office stuff. I'm now thinking of keeping the i5 and sending back the i3 ( or selling on eBay) as this is such a cracking spec, however it would be overkill for what I need.

First world problems.

Thanks

Thanks OP !! There is possibly a 2% Quidco as well ..
Voted Hot !!! and Ordered :-)

Am I missing something here, or have you forgot to include the price for the 2 x 2TB HDD. ONce you do this, your at least equal to the price if not oever the Revo. Not to mention the OS, time taken to build, no support, unbranded machine / appearance etc.
Not to everyone taste, but granted your route does yield a real quad core and better parts build. But then will take up more room and use more power. I think both routes are good, depending on the person.

I have an Acer Aspire Revo R3610 4gb ram, does anyone know if ram can be upgraded before I buy this one, cant find defo answer on Google. Thanks.

Thank you. Fair comment.

Seriously considering this,great deal given the spec.Acer website information here:Your text here.

Probably not, but a cheap build with a proper desktop CPU (i3 or higher) would be okay.

Thank you. Not thought about that. Would a Celeron CPU be considered 'useable' for this? Best Regards.

Any one knows the power consumption for the celeron version? I heard about ECS - LIVA uses much less power however i am looking for something that is able to connect minimal of 3 HDD SATA @ 6gb/s for raid config on low power preferable with USB 3.0 and 1 or 2 lan 10/100/1000 mbps

Would this run cool enough in a cupboard to host a Plex server and NAS? There would be about 4 inches of breathing space all around it but no vents. My Skybox and current WD Mybook World are in there and dont overheat. I would probably get the i3 version.

You could build your own with a bit more grunt:

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/Pd88f7
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/Pd88f7/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£143.99 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Asus H81I-PLUS Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard (£52.38 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Kingston 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£27.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Storage: Seagate 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Case: CiT MTX-005B Mini ITX Tower Case w/300W Power Supply (£27.99 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £252.35
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-12-29 19:31 GMT+0000

More expensive but more customisable and better for VM use! http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i5-5200U-vs-Intel-Core-i5-4460

BIOS error at startup: CPU fan error.

CPU fan wouldn't spin up and processor got very hot. Swapped with fan from my Celeron box, worked OK.

Put suspect fan in my Celeron box - same error. Checked continuity, all OK - slightly sticky bearing seemed to be the issue.

Tried to get replacement online but couldn't find the same part anywhere.

RMA issued by EBuyer before Christmas. Having ordered i5 as replacement, put suspect fan back into i3 to send back - works perfectly, no errors :/

Agreed this is what I'd consider a good deal. Just upgraded the RAM on a Celeron version from 2GB to 8GB. Was a little fiddly but doable so to speak. Adding an additional 2.5" hard disk is more straight forward. Think the manufacturer's claim this is 'hot swappable' but I'm a little nervous about that. One thing I'd like to ask is whether anyone's managed to successfully get a Virtual Machine installed and running on one of these machines as I've tried and failed to get a VM installed under VMWare Workstation as it keeps on resulting in a kernel panic. Not sure whether this is down to the CPU not supporting the same instructions as let's say the i3/i5 version (sounding like I've an idea of what I'm talking about but honestly don't). Will give installing a VM under VirtualBox a try but just had the extension pack throw a wobbler. Needless to say think this is quite a neat bit of kit. Voted hot.

Thanks ordered, good price for the features and storage.

Bare in mind that the i5-5200U is a mobile CPU and thus isn't a "proper" i5, it only has two physical cores.

PLEX??

What fan issue did you have?

what do you think about the I3 version ? so close to buying it! does it handle Windows well for decent programs ?

How noisy are these fan wise? I'm interested in the i5 model. Thanks

Ah I don't think its ssd with the Tesco deal at the moment, hmmm
http://www.tesco.com/direct/acer-revo-one-mini-pc-inc-remote-control-intel-core-i3-4gb-500gb-white/661-2694.prd?skuId=661-2694&sc_cmp=aff*nt*gmo*HotUKDeals_1018132&utm_medium=gmo&utm_source=tradedoubler&utm_campaign=aff*HotUKDeals_1018132
Still unsure! Might be best waiting a week or so

I bought the Celeron from Tesco a while ago and rebuilt to Windows 10 with a Sandisk SSD - works OK but does pause when processor maxes out (which happens fairly regularly)

Bought the i3 on the EBuyer £200 deal - again rebuilt to Windows 10 with a Sandisk SSD, much smoother and OK running Plex.

Had a cooling fan issue with the i3, so got an RMA for it. On the lookout for a replacement and spotted the i5 deal on Sunday.

I thought it was a misprice, as the lower i3 model is priced at £439.98 (which was the price of the i5 model last week), so put my order in on Sunday night and waited until it shipped before posting on here.

i5 will be delivered tomorrow and should be a good desktop machine/ Plex Server - performance will be better than my seven year old Dell Q6600 but will use seven times less power to do it.

Only problem now is that cooling fan issue I had with the i3 has fixed itself....

This probably comes with the 2TB drives in a RAID configuration. You'll need to make some changes in the bios to allow you to use the full 4TB of storage.

I had the i5 model for a short while before it died (Amazon warehouse special). Very powerful little machine.

I've now got the i3 5010u model with the same 4TB 8GB spec as this. It's still sealed so I could exchange for this model but I would have to pay for its return & be at the mercy of the Ebuyer returns dept.

I still think this looks like a boiler or something that I'd want to put my beer in.

already posted: http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/revo-one-i5-4tb-hdd-329-ebuyer-2362881

and i3 version here: http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/acer-revo-rl85-i3-179-99-tesco-2362895

Nice find. Wish I had the money and or justification to get one. My media centre is working fine.

Posted yesterday, good deal tho for those that missed it.