Product review (5 stars): ... the brands of ice makers and they all had poor reviews failure after failure and there were some who ...
Although I spent two days on line reading reviews on all the brands of ice makers and they all had poor reviews failure after failure and there were some who had real good luck. Of all the models this one the Edge Star was better so I took the plunge and will wait and see.

One thing that's weird is a couple of reviews said they had seen the inside of most of the machines and thy all looked alike as if one company made them all and then added the outside cosmetics according to the  brand being made ?.

The way I use mine is add the water and make cubes to put into a gallon plastic bag for my refrigerator freezer, when the bag gets down to about half full make another bag of cubes. Being I only run the unit for a short time maybe  it will last longer?.