Product review (5 stars): These are great little units
These things are nice.  They are quiet, but it is active machinery with a fan, so it's not dead silent.  On Medium, it drops nine bullets of ice every 10 minutes.  It takes a few cycles to get the condenser really cooling, so the first few 'drops' will be pretty weak.  Don't worry, before too long it will be running full blast.  Every 10 min it drops a cycle of ice.  It takes about two hours (120 minutes / 12 cycles of 10 minute drops) to fill the tray.  A full tray is 2lb.  1 lb 7 oz if you let it do it's own thing.  If you pop the lid and claw the ice forward a little, you get 2lb per full tray cycle.  So take that into consideration if you need more ice generation.  Most commercial ice makers will give you ice generation numbers but the small ones seem not to.  I am ordering another one to double my output - sometimes we fill coolers for the beach, and do icecream for the kids, and the normal $40 freezer ice maker just doesn't cut it.  We also don't need a $1000 unit that takes up half the kitchen.  Also - they are small and portable, so boating, camping, etc.  Let me tell you, you will be king of the castle if you have power at your campsite and have one of these.  NO one has ice after the first day.  *side note*  the other units here that are not red, have a less expensive price, but $60 shipping.  Sort of dishonest in my opinion.  I have one of these exact models already and I want two.  Heck, maybe I'll get three! They work great.