Product review (4 stars): A little loud but reliable
It has been three years since I bought this so I think it is time to review it.  It took three attempts to get one that wasn't damaged in shipping but that's another story.  I'm happy with this ice maker.  I did buy an extended warranty on it but, fortunately, I haven't needed it.  It is still going strong.

When I first installed it my wife complained about the taste.  We have a water filter on our tap water and refrigerator ice maker we used to have also filtered the water.  So I bought a LASCO 37-1821 ice maker inline filter from Amazon and installed it in the supply line of this ice maker.  LASCO also makes a mounting bracket that I used to mount filter to the wall.  No complaints about the taste since I installed the filter.

We were a little surprised at how loud it is but we've gotten used to it.  When we first got it I thought about making a little insulated cabinet for it to sit in to dampen the noise.  Like other white noise in the house we don't notice is much now.

I need to defrost it about twice a year.  I can't tell you if that is due to my kids not closing it properly although that is what my wife and I suspect.  In any event, I simply put the ice container in our big freezer and carry the ice maker out to the back yard and let it defrost and drain.

My only complaint with this ice maker is that the cubes tend to come out in groups of 2-4 rather than individual crescent shaped cubes.  Sometimes the entire rack of ice comes out of the maker connected at the bottom.  Not a big deal but it makes scooping into a glass or water bottle more difficult than if the cubes broke up into individual cubes.

So I took off a star for the sound level and the cube clumps.  Other than that there isn't much to complain about.