Product review (4 stars): Makes the best ice (for those who like to chew ice).  Unfortunately the machine breaks a lot.
We are a family of 6, with two adults and four kids under age of eight.

We first purchased this ice maker about 5 years ago to sip lime tea the ice in our new Samsoung fridge that just did not keep up with the amount of ice we used each day.

To our surprise, we absolutely fell in love with this thing. Everyone drank more water and quickly became addicted to chewing this ice.

We did have to repair that first one about two times, once when the plastic ice turner inside broke and the other when the water despensor broke. Both easy repairs.

That machine finally gave out after about 4 years. We quickly purchased another in January 2017.

Same as usual till about 3 weeks ago when the machine turned off saying it was filled with ice, even though there was no ice in the machine. I have messed with the sensors and other parts of it, with no success. So after less then a year, this machine broke. We have tried to not have it but everyone in the house misses the machine and the ice it makes.

So today I gave in and purchased yet another one of these machines. This time, I was happy to spend the extra $20 for the 4-year full warranty Amazon provided.

If you like ice, then this is the machine for you. Unfortunately, it has a tendency to break in a year or two. So I highly recommend buying the protection plan. Coming from someone who never buys those things, it will be put to use before the 4 years are up.