French Door vs SxS Fridge

I have a side by side and I frickin hate it. It feels like there's no fridge space and I lose stuff in the backs of shelves all the time. However, the ice maker works flawlessly and has for 6 years. French door refrigerators with ice dispensers in the door typically have more problems with the ice dispenser.

We just got GE French door with dual ice makers. One in door and one in freezer… one of them is bound to mess up at one point so we wanted option of 2. It was a little loud at first so I tightened some screws on the back and it’s better.

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I have a side by side and I frickin hate it. It feels like there's no fridge space

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We have a Whirlpool fridge (I apologize about previously posting in another thread about saying I had KitchenAid, forgot the brand). Old fridge was side by side Samsung that froze up numerous times and self-destructed the ice maker.

I get more use out of my freezer with all the stuff I buy from Costco, so I like the access of the side by side freeze. It also has a water dispenser that doesn't shut off when I hope the non-freezer side which is convenient. I do feel like you have to be much more organized with your fridge and that it would be so much easier to organize a French door and access things that aren't in the freezer. French doors force you to stack stuff on top of your freezer items.

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I know to stay away from Samsung, but what about LG?

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Only EVER buy a Samsung phone or TV, nothing else. LG makes decent kitchen stuff, but I would spend the extra $$$ and buy Frigidaire/KitchenAid/Whirlpool/GE. LG can be hit or miss and you're less likely to replace the other brands that I mentioned sooner than an LG, no matter how you take care of it.

French door all day if you are going to have a deep freezer. You're opening the fridge 10x as much as the freezer. The extra space/access to the fridge is so much better than a SxS.

Couldn't do a SxS. We have a french door with 2 drawers. The top shallow drawer is a fridge and holds all our drinks. The lower deep drawer is the freezer. Love it. The ice maker in the door is basically useless though. It's a Samsung. Never had a single issue in 9 years other than the ice maker storage compartment freezing up. It's done that from day one. You aren't getting anything but crushed ice out of that thing. We don't use ice all that much though.

Sorry for the late reply. I can only speak to LG brand re the in-door icemaker. Nothing but problems! My sister and I have the same model with compressor dying after a surge or blackout. Have a friend who had the same issue. Google will tell you what's up.

So the internals have the water inside the fridge and the ice just dumps in the bottom freezer?

What's wrong with external ice/water on a SxS? The ice is in the freezer and not the fridge like a French door.