Product review (2 stars): This fridge gave me a buyer's remorse hangover times ten!
Lesson learned. I will never buy another Samsung appliance. They make a mean phone or tablet, but this refrigerator is a gorgeous piece of dead weight.

To its credit, it's beautiful. It maintains a perfect temperature and stores lots of stuff. That's the good. Now....

The ice maker leaks. Apparently there's a service bulletin out on it, because of a small seam in the bottom left corner that allows the warmer air from the refrigerator section to get in and melt the ice & interfere with the freezing process. That means you will not get many whole ice cubes: even on the "cubed" setting, I get little pieces of ice and not anywhere near the "10 lbs of ice a day" that it advertises. I plan on sealing the seam with silicone gel to see if that helps. Oh by the way: I'm on my second ice maker, it's crap and I've only had the fridge 15 months!

So where does all this leaking water go? There is a tiny drip tray in the fridge door, and that's where it goes. The engineers at Samsung, however, decided to make it a NON-REMOVABLE drip tray. It doesn't drain anywhere... it just fills up and then you have to take a sponge in there to sop out all the water every few days. Very much a pain in the tailpipe, folks.

Next: the compressor is now making a God-awful noise, and I'm 3 months out of the 1-year warranty. I did get a 10-year major component extended warranty that covers the compressor, but not the service call, diagnostics or labor. Which means we're going to be out even MORE money on an already costly fridge.

Next: the Sodastream function works well enough, but good luck fitting a Sodastream bottle in the door straight to use it! No, again those pesky engineers designed the opening below the water spout too short for you to stand a 1-liter bottle up in. I've gotten very good at angling the bottle in and measuring the right amount of sparkling water into the bottle, though. If you still choose to buy this fridge, get used to it.

It's extremely heavy. I can't even budge this thing, which means that I have to wait for the service technician to pull it out and service the compressor before I can put a refrigerator surge protector in the outlet. I highly recommend this because the compressor is a very specialized one, and not many appliance repair companies will even touch it. So if you're going to spend this much on this fridge, spend a little more on a surge protector. They're available on Amazon. The problem is that if it ever trips, you'll have to pull this monster out to reset it... so now I'm having second thoughts about installing it. We're hosed!

In summary, given the chance to go back in time 15 months and talk to ourselves while we were looking at this shiny, beautiful appliance, we would do so, screaming "NOOOO! RUN! STAY FAR AWAY!" You can surely do much better for the money that this dog of a fridge, and I cannot possibly recommend it to anyone I like. And I like you.