Best Minifridge, preferably w/ Auto-Defrost?

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<p>Moving into a dorm in a couple weeks… Does anyone know of a good cube minifridge out there, 1.5 - 2 cubic feet?</p>

<p>Avanti has some cheap ones with auto-defrost, but they get some bad reviews.
[Product</a> Catalog - Cube](<a href=“Avanti is big in compact appliances”>Avanti is big in compact appliances)</p>

<p>GE’s look OK, but they are manual defrost, meaning the ice builds up and you have to melt it, which sucks.
[GMR02BANBB</a> - GE Spacemaker® Compact Refrigerator - Features And Photos](<a href=“GE Appliances: Shop for Home, Kitchen, & Laundry Appliances”>GE Appliances: Shop for Home, Kitchen, & Laundry Appliances)</p>

<p>Then I found this professional/medical company Summit, with this model
[FFAR2L</a> : Summit Appliances](<a href=“http://www.summitappliance.com/detail/r01r]FFAR2L”>FFAR2L | Summit® Appliance)</p>

<p>It costs more, but I would pay a bit more to avoid having to manually defrost, and to avoid having the thing break after 2 months…</p>

<p>Any other recommendations? Thanks!</p>

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<p>craigslist…</p>

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<p>personally I don’t know of anyone who has defrosted their mini fridge.</p>

<p>maybe it just doesn’t come up in conversation though.</p>

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<p>i’ve never heard of anyone defrosting their fridge either.</p>

<p>my roommate has a fridge(i was to say its a frigidaire) that has a seperate real freezer. kinda nice feature, keeps bottles very cold</p>

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<p>I never defrosted my mini-fridge either… well, except at the end of the school year when I had to take it home. The ice doesn’t build up enough to need to do it regularly though…</p>

<p>I bought mine for $99 at wal-mart and it lasted both years I lived in the dorm.</p>