I am one of those posters who posted about ice maker repairs, but that was about my Northland. I also came out strong against trying to get a new fridge ice maker to work perfectly after several repair visits. (I would have given up and gone with a different brand, but that was not the outcome.)

As for a Sub Zero, I have no idea. I've had my Scotsman for about 2 plus years and it has been fine. I gather the Scotsman and Sub Zero are made with the same innards, but the SZ has more bells and whistes.

We installed a SZ undercounter ice maker in the coffee bar (facing family room, around the corner of the kitchen, all open plan, so it's really one big room). We picked SZ over Scotsman because we wanted to integrate it with our cabinets. For our freezer, we installed the SZ 700 all-freezer (two bottom drawers, top door with shelves) and deliberately did not pick the version with the icemaker in the freezer drawer. Ice that is kept frozen does not taste as good as straight from the icemaker, IMO, and not having an icemaker in the freezer drawer does save a lot of space. Everyone just knows to go to the icemaker for ice. We very occasionally will store some extra ice in our freezer for a party or camping trip, but the stand-alone icemaker makes a lot.

If I had a stand alone ice maker, I would eliminate the ice maker from the fridge/freezer. It saves space and is one less thing to worry about on these units.

Good luck!

Ditto - we put a standalone icemaker in the island and it is heaven. Our fridge - bottom freezer, came with an ice maker but we disconnected it and it's great to have that extra space. Nothing, but nothing, makes drinks taste as good as clear little ice cubes! What a luxury!

Gizmo- I was warned off putting the clear ice maker near the family room because the constant operation clunk-clunk necessary for clear cubes would be annoying. Do you find that to be a problem