Product review (5 stars): A WISE PURCHASE ON OUR PART.  I HAVE NO COMPLAINTS WHAT-SO-EVER ABOUT THIS PRODUCT.
I really cannot say enough good things about this particular freezer.  We actually have two of these in our home and will soon be adding another. (More about that later).  Right off the top though I want to tell you that when you consider the shipping charges on this model and the asking price here, you can probably do much better if you buy locally.  If you have a truck or larger SUV you can easily carry this thing home and avoid delivery charges.  Anyway...

We went the route of manual defrost as we have had automatic defrosting units in the past and to be quite frank, they, the automatic defrosting units will cause a significant rise in your electric bill.  With these small units we have found that complete defrosting is quite avoidable if you simply take a nice and sturdy plastic scraper (like the one you use on your car windshield in the winder) and keep the frost build-up down every few weeks are so then the chore of completely emptying your unit is kept to a minimum.  We have found that once ever 18 months or so is quite adequate.

These units are extremely quiet and there is no problem with the motor/compressor constantly coming on.  We have both of our freezers on our back porch next to an old refrigerator we keep as a back-up and overflow unit.  The reason we choose to purchase and install two smaller units, rather than one large chest unit, is that we found with the large chest unit we simply had too much food wastage over the years.  Food seems to get lost in these things and I for one absolutely hate digging thought bags and packages and freezer containers to find one small item...all the while risking frost bite.

We always have a large garden and neither my wife nor I do any canning.  This is a choice we made several years ago. All of our produce from the garden in properly prepared and then frozen.  We also buy in bulk and have found we save a tremendous amount of money in doing so. The presence of a large or smaller home freezer makes it possible to capitalize on discounts on perishable foods.  This we do often. The only drawback of this is  the cost of a deep freezer. You can get one like this for under $300 and the annual energy cost varies, but is usually somewhere around $50 a year. To break even, you're going to need to be saving about $60-70 a year on your food costs. For our family, we can sometimes save that much in a month due to our deep freezer. Between the flash-frozen vegetables bought at a discount, the frozen casseroles prepared ahead of time, the breakfast burritos made at an incredibly cheap rate per burrito, the produce from our garden socked away for later, and countless other little things, the deep freezer saves us money almost every single day.

Now another reason we have two of these freezers (and will soon be getting yet another) is that we keep vegetables, of which we use a lot,  in one and we keep meat in another.  We buy our meat in bulk, either at the local store or quite often we will purchase a half-beet.  And of course there are the fish we catch (I am only able to catch really stupid fish, so we do not have that many fish in our freezer at a given time as overall, as a tribe, fish are quite a bit brighter than I am).

We have been using these units for well over a year now and have had no problems what so ever.  They do have a light on them that tells you they are running which we constantly check.  We did have a power outage last year that lasted for over 24 hours (this was a real bummer), but dry ice took care of that problem and we saved all of our food.

All in all these are good freezers and if you manage your shopping correctly, they will save you quite a lot of money.  They are light enough that my wife and I can move them from location to location (when empty) with no difficulty what so ever.  We do not use the locking mechanism on our freezers as there is no way a raccoon can get the lid open and they are the only critter that would be interested in their contents other than our grandsons.

Don Blankenship
The Ozarks