Product review (3 stars): It makes ice
All I can say is - Extremely pleased with the ice it makes.  This unit would be perfect for a garage but not for a kitchen area.  It makes a loud nose that is indescribable when it is filling.  The noise wakes us up at night.  We can hear it in our bedroom, bathroom, basement, upstairs, garage - everywhere!  Definitely have the drain line hooked up so that it drains.  Manual says it is optional.  No, not really.  The cubes will be wet.  It is not a freezer, and it is not designed to make ice and then keep the ice frozen--the ice will melt, and then the unit will make more ice.  I wish our 'salesman' had explained more to me about it and I am usually a well-informed consumer, but I was NOT on this one.  It was a 'hurried' purchase due to my husband's knee surgery and we needed ice in bulk.  I would not purchase this brand/model again.