I have only had this coffee maker for about a month now, but I have used both the carafe and the single-serve feature.  I am very happy with this coffee maker.  One small thing that is a big deal for me... I love that the carafe on this does not drip randomly when pouring like my old coffemate carafe used to.  On the coffeemate carafe, if you didn't pour very slowly, quite often coffee would end up running down the sid eof the pot and then there was a bit of clean up.