This is absolutely the best ice maker I have ever bought and I have bought at least 6! I just can’t say how amazed I am with this machine. It makes ice fast and keeps the bin full. Tank is easy to fill and I use filtered water, not tap water. I love the soft pellet ice so much better than the nugget ice. Should have bought this one the first time! Excellent price, great purchase! GE products rock! One note, this machine was too high to fit under our cabinets so had to place on our bar cart which was fine!

Love my Opal. Arrived well packed and was easy to install on counter and start using.

If your like our family, in the summer, there's never enough ice. It seems like we make a trip to Sonic to get a bag of ice every other day. Not any more... With the GE Opal Nugget Ice Maker 2.0 we have all the ice we need and we don't have to experience an "Heat" to get it. We love our new ice maker. Pick yours up while supplies last.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] While this ice maker generates good ice, it produces the most obnoxious and annoying sounds to the point my kid couldn't sleep through the night. I had to unplug it 2 days after I got it hooked up.

We love the ice and the quantity it makes, BUT we are on our 3rd ice maker. And this one does the same thing the other 2 did. It makes a screeching noise so loud we have to turn it off. Then turn it back on later until it starts screeches again. This happens so often we can't leave it turned on at night or when we leave the house. We will probably return this one too.

Planning to return. Purchased on 7/31/26 and within a week it’s already making a loud screeching sound that only is remedied by turning it off for a few hours but can possibly happen again same day. Really hoping it’s just a defect.

I was sooo excited to get this. I had done a lot of research, and despite a few reviewers on different sites saying that it suddenly began making loud noises, I thought "that won't happen with mine". Long story short, it makes great ice, and it makes it fast. We loved that, as well as it's countertop ability, and no need for a dedicated water line or drain line. We left it running 24 hours a day, and for the first few days everything was great. On the 4th or 5th day, we were watching TV at about 5PM when all of a sudden it sounded like someone began screaming right behind us. Scared the tar out of us. I'm talking about someone standing right behind you suddenly screaming as loud as they can, as if they were in great pain. I had read that the fix recommended by GE for this issue was to "unplug the icemaker and wait for 2 to 4 hours, so the icemaker can thaw and reset". So that's what we did. After waiting 4 hours, we plugged it back in. Ice began to be made, and everything seemed fine. At approximately 2:30 AM the same night, roughly 5 hours after plugging it back in, my wife and I were shocked awake by the same screaming ice maker. I'm not sure I can properly or adequately convey the noise this makes, and this site won't let me attach a video. Picture in your mind sleeping soundly and someone coming within 3 feet of you and yelling/screaming as loud as they possibly can, and they won't stop. When I returned this to Sam's Club, the clerk told me that the last person that returned one of these said the same exact thing happened to them. The fact that GE can continue to sell these knowing full well they're flawed is shameful. This product should be recalled.

It makes the ice and is good ice. However, the way to scoop ice and resivor is cheap and difficult to maneuver without spilling ice out on floor.

I have been seeing all of the reviews about this ice makers. They are true. This machine makes an unbearable squealing noise and I can’t get it to stop whatever I do. Unplug, dethaw, descale. Extremely disappointed that GE would continue to sell this producer with the same problems that a lot of customers are having. Now, what are our options to something comparable?

The water reservoir has a flawed design. When you add water to the tank and turn it upside down, the lid opens.