It’s a fridge and a freezer
4/5
Replacement for Beto CDA 647F which went into terminal decline after over 13 years of faithful service.
Compared to the old model this is generally an improved product: noticeably quieter, slightly smaller footprint, more modern interior with LED light, external appearance less rounded and much sharper.
A few niggles:
Despite having a nominally larger freezer capacity I cannot store as much food as in the older one. This seems to be down to (a)the drawers being chunkier, and (b) the fact that the top compartment now has a drawer rather than a drop down front. The difference isn’t huge (a couple of loaves of bread) but is a bit of a pain. The Beko user manual states that the drawers should be taken out to get maximum freezer capacity: worth bearing in mind if you are comparing different makes/models before buying one.
Being really nitpicky, it was disappointing that the freezer doesn’t’t have a shallow ice cube drawer like the old model (an ice cube tray is, however, supplied). And there is no longer a supplied egg holder for putting in the fridge door racks. Hardly deal breakers, but a little disappointing for me.
Overall this seems to be a reasonably-priced fairly basic model. At the moment it is doing what it is supposed to do. It only remains to see whether it enjoys as long a trouble free life as its predecessor.