We have a desktop ice maker like the one you've linked to Vas, and it's OK, but only OK.
The ice cubes are small and hollow, and they come out of the machine at only marginally below freezing point, so they melt very quickly in drinks and are next to useless for dropping in rose to keep it chilled. You end up needing so much on a hot day that the wine gets watered down. There's no chiller in the machine, so they also melt quickly in situ if you don't use them or transfer them to the freezer.
We only really use ours for the ice bucket, where they're better than nothing, but I still prefer one of these:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vacu-Vin-Ra...TSJDZWK2EMWX2W. We keep 3 inners in the freezer which can be rotated. They wont take champagne bottles though, which is when we need the ice.
For putting in drinks we use ice from trays from the freezer, which are bigger, solid, and much colder, so they have 20+ times the ability to chill the drink, and will last a few minutes.
I've also found the ice maker cubes cause fizzy drinks to fizz so much they go almost flat. Not sure why that is, but again the ice from trays is much better.
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