Product review (5 stars): I more or less gave up on the idea of using one of these but we use a lot of ice and our supposedly 'top of the line' Samsung pi
Having purchased and returned another brand name ice maker...twice, I more or less gave up on the idea of using one of these but we use a lot of ice and our supposedly 'top of the line' Samsung piece of garbage refrigerator constantly has problems with the ice maker so once again, figured would give this a try. Glad we did! This is smaller than the other unit but is able to put out nearly the same amount of ice during a 24 hour period. The cubes of ice are small - they actually come in two different sizes but both are on the smaller side at roughly 1/2 o 1/3 the size of a regular cube. These are all shaped like cylinders rather than actual cubes but I rather like it. The ice maker itself is a bit loud - not terribly so but you won't want to put it in an area where you will be forced to hear it all the time. After it first arrived I ran several test runs through to make sure it was clean and then set it up to produce ice several more times in a row. Requires little to no time in between use - if you want to produce a lot of ice then just dump the ice tray and run it through again. Overall I really like the Ivation brand and find it a good balance between quality and affordability. This isn't the biggest ice maker nor the largest capacity but it's a terrific little work horse at an affordable price. Coupon code resulted in low/no price purchase for evaluation.