I researched the pros and cons before I bought. This is a great product but it does take alot of work to clean it. I didn't find the height any taller than my previous grind and brew coffeemaker although alot of others felt it was too tall. I had a more elaborate model before where I didn't have to premeasure the beans and this one I do for the pot size I am making. But for the price it is a great deal. It also doesn't have a control for making a light to strong pot of coffee, which I enjoyed in my previous model. It also is noisy but I don't believe any more so than my prevous model..it makes sense that it makes noise as it is grinding coffee beans. All in all I find this a great product because the price was so low. Whatever it doesn't do is outweighed because the price is so reasonable.