I've had the hds 5 for over two years now. Only regret is i didn't get a bigger one. Saving up for it and structure scan. I will say that i've had two issues with mine, Both of which were resolved very quickly by lowrance. The first issue was my temp was jumping all over the place ie. it would go from 42 degrees to 65 degrees and back again. Called lowrance and they sent me a new transducer. The other problem was a bad seal which fried my unit and they sent me a brand new one to fix that. On both occasions the sent me the parts first and all i had to do was send them the bad parts. Great customer service. Thumbs Up