I purchased the KA CD FD 72" high model last fall and so far I really like it. I seriously looked at the Liebherr but in the end I really needed white not stainless - wish the Liebherr had come in white. Whilst I really liked the Liebherr produce drawers (much bigger than on the KA) I also like the split shelves on the KA that I can adjust as two columns. I thought this unit was vastly overpriced relative to the shorter model and the standard depth units, but I really liked the upgraded interior and the hidden hinges etc on the 72", and especially the better sliding produce drawers, so I sprung for it. It would be great if the produce drawers were were larger and deeper like on the Liebherr but I use the veggy green bags and store the extra produce on the glass shelf just above the drawers. It is reasonably quiet, but then I have it where the noise is not an issue in any case. The ice maker seems to work fine for us - but this is my first fridge with ice and so that is already a luxury for me. I could do without the water dispenser - the water tastes disgusting and plasticy. We do not use it and I wish it were not there. My ideal would be to have only the icemaker, no water! For me this was the best fridge outside the Liebherr. However, I could not justify the expense of the Libeherr when I would be compromising on the stainless vs the white. Good luck!

Mtnrdredux, and that set up works well for your family of five? We will soon be a family of 5, 3 boys, eat mostly fresh food and lots of veggies. We ended up going with a 36" fully integrated all refrigerator subzero and separate freezer drawers, as well as a deep freeze in the garage for frozen produce, meat, etc. We are in the building stage still so I'm not sure it will be the perfect setup, but it wasn't a decision I made lightly. In the end the refrigerator/freezer units simply didn't have adequate produce storage for the amount of full height refrigerator space I wanted, and we really don't use much frozen food on a daily basis so the freezer drawers seemed like a perfect fit. Not sure that helps.

I habe refrigerator drawers and they work great. One top is refrigerator and below is a freezer. The top has pre selections of different types of temp settings (snacks,drinks,produce,variety etc) and can manually set the temp the preferred temp too. Freezer is great, it has pre sets as well (chill, deep freeze, spirits) and one great thing is it also has an ice machine if desired. love them, I use them for my drink station and barely touch my wine fridge since it’s mostly for looks and less convenient than fridge drawers! I’ve seen other people use them as a snack station for kids with apples juices cheese strings etc. I love it as a beverage center I can fit a ton of stuff in it: beers ciders wines orange juice etc. I use the freezer for spirits. for the noise, it is so quiet I don’t ever hear it running IMO but the ice machine sure is loud I can hear when the water pump turns on to refill the ice tray and the ice drops into the bucket it’s loud. My cabinet guy never was able to fit it in flat to the rest of the cabinets for some reason, if your considering cabinet ready you may want to check that first. The ice machine doesn’t have a way of recognizing when the bucket is full so you could easily overflow the ice bucket into affinity which is annoying but after some discipline of turning it off and on when needed, it works fine for us. It’s nice not having to use the ice maker in my large freezer because it’s always so full of food and etc. overall love it and will always use them instead of wine fridge/undercounter door fridge.

I had Perlick Drawers that I loved until they coil developed a leak. The part was under warranty but the cost of having someone install it was near the price of a new unit. Perlick was great -- sent out a new unit rather than just the coil. But my cutomer panels no longer fit and the drawer arrangement didn't work as well for us. Then the new unit started having icing up issues -- and after a couple of defrosts it became clear that it too had developed a leaking coil. Didn't even get a reply from Perlick. I will probably replace with Sub Zero now that they make a 24".