It cools. Have it plugged into the wall in my office cube, put a bottled water in yesterday evening, and today its cold. So for keeping sodas cool or for my use - coffee/tea creamer, it will serve the purpose.There is a slight fan noise, a very subtle buzzing sound - so be aware its not totally silent; I imagine it will become part of the background noise in my mind soon.One issue - as its light, and only has the hard plastic feet that are molded into the case, and the door latch is rather hard latching, its not possible to open/close without the thing sliding across the desk. It really needs some rubber/silicone insert feet to go in the bottom feet to help keep it in place. Will be working a solution - may cut some wood blocks to go in the foot insides, that I can stick silicone bumpers to the bottom of... will see.Updated Oct 18 2017 - after having it running now for several weeks I can provide some performance feedback. Its kept my creamer cold - works like a charm. To help keep cool in the fridge, since every time one opens the door, all the cold air leaves the small space, I keep a bottled water bottle in there that acts as a thermal battery - so when the door is shut again, all that cold water helps in getting the temp down to a few degrees cooler than room temp quicker.Also note, that occasional defrosting is needed. Every time you open the door, the air in the room rushes in, warm and moist. Water will accumulate in the bottoms as the humidity from the room air is cooled out. Eventually the surface of the cooling pad at the back side (the middle of the back with the 4 screw mounts) will freeze over. Luckily, defrost is quick. Just pull the items out, unplug, set with door open, and in a minute or two the frost/ice will be melted. Wipe it up with a paper towel, put things back in, plug back in, and its off to cooling again. I plan to stay on top of it by wiping the inside condensation down with a paper towel before it has a chance to freeze when I can spot it.But as an office cube fridge its working great. Covered it with stickers I had laying around in a drawer in case anyone gets an idea of absconding with it when I'm not here.----Update March 29 2018I've run it 24/7 since I got it in September 2017 - so about 6 months now.In the early days (it was fall/winter) I would get ice build-up on the cooling patch at the back. I'd turn it off, open it up, let the ice melt in about 5 mins, wipe up the water, restock, and back on. Every month or so. In the past 5 weeks however, there has no longer been any ice build up (Feb/Mar 2018) - so I'm assuming the cooling patch no longer gets as cold any more.I'm watching this to see if the cooler is actually failing in its cooling capabilities over time. As its got no moving parts there should be no reason for it to fail, but we will see. It certainly seems as though its cooling capabilities have declined over 5 months of usage, so something in the design/construction could start to degrade over time. Not clear if this is over time (5 months of being unwrapped and installed) regardless of usage or if its purely after 3600 hours of usage running. Having run with a small spring based thermometer placed inside of it (that usually just sits on my office desk reading 75deg F, this is reading around 45deg F inside the fridge for the past 2 days, after those 6 months of operation. Not getting ice on the patch, but still cold inside. So far so good. Will amend with new data once it presents itself.