The ice machine kicks out a lot of ice and stores a lot too. The controls are very confusing with several buttons that have multiple features on either long or short presses. The translations from the chinese engineers didn't quite come out right, and it makes it a little hard to get good ice. Ours started making the ice so thick that all the cubes were frozen into a sheet with a 1/2\" solid plate at the bottom. we had to dump all of those because they were useless and too hard to break without a hammer. I still do not really know how to change the thickness, but i'm getting more reasonable ice, though still too thick. if you want a simple user friendly machine, this is not for you. If you will have only one or two people using this who can figure it out, then this could work. It is a powerhouse with ice production, just not good or controllable ice.