Customer Ratings & Reviews

This is a very good shredder. This unit is quiet and so far I have not had a single jam. The unit does shred slower when processing thicker items like credit cards, passport, etc. The bin capacity is quite large and I was quite impressed with the microcut. I do recommend using the bags for this since the unit shreds the paper so thoroughly that it makes it hard to get all of it out of the bin.

I replaced an old Fellowes that I had for 10 years that work very good for me but I need to get little bigger one and the Fellowes - Powershred 455Ms Micro-Cut Shredder is the one I bought with no regret. It does everything I want it to do with ease. I would highly recommend it.

This thing is built solid. Micro shred is great security. Suoer safe: if you get fingers on the ring around the feeder, it stops. Works great so far. Big bin is easy to open and empty. Chews up old credit and id cards, too.

This shredder disappointed me in two ways: Disappointment 1. The Best Buy website specifies that this shredder cuts pieces down to 5/64 x 5/16 inches. Using those numbers, I ordered this shredder thinking that it would shred paper into pieces smaller than the pieces produced by the Fellowes 10MC shredder I already had. That 10MC shredder's information on the box states it produces a shredded piece size of 7/64 x 25/64 inches. When I picked up my 455Ms order and brought it home, I noted that the specifications for it (listed on the box) gave a shredded piece size of 1/8 x 13/32 inches (i.e., 8/64 x 26/64 inches) which is appreciably larger than the 5/64 x 20/64 inches the Best Buy website gives. And, indeed, when I look at the output of the Fellowes 455Ms and the output of the Fellowes 10MC, the smallest pieces of the 455Ms appear to be no smaller than the smallest pieces from the 10MC. Thus I didn't get the smaller pieces I was hoping for with the 455Ms. But the 1/8 x 13/32 inch pieces are still pretty small, way smaller than standard cross cut. So I decided to keep the 455Ms. It's quieter and runs longer than the 10MC, per specifications, before needing a cool down. Disappointment 2: But after running the 455Ms extensively, a 2nd disappointment appeared. A few of the shredded pieces after doing a lot of shredding were considerably larger than the 1/8 x 13/32 inches. They would be double that 1/8 inch width and a few inches long. These pieces seemed to occur when 5 or 6 pages of paper were fed into the shredder and placed in the slot slightly askew, so that the shredder would rub the page edges against the shredder slot ends and fold or curl over the paper edges onto themselves as the shredder pulled the paper bunch down. The 455Ms seems to require very straight up and down insertion of pages to avoid generating the occasional larger piece, something that's hard to do consistently unless you're working very carefully. My solution to this problem which occurred when page edges were rubbing against the shredder slot ends and curled onto themselves was to cut pages in half lengthwise or crosswise so that these half pages could be fed into the shredder without contacting the shredder slot ends. But this cutting of the pages in half is an extra step. I would note that with the Fellowes 10MC shredder I don't have to avoid having the pages rub against the ends of the shredder slot. I don't have to prepare the sheets by cutting them in half. Even with a bit of rubbing of pages against the shredder slot ends and some curling over of the pages, the 10MC produces uniformly tiny pieces.

This unit is extremely quiet and works better than expected.

The shredder destroys paper into minute bits. Quiet and quick shredder

This is the most quiet shredder I have ever had. Does great job.

This product does heat up after shredding a 100 pages or so. Needs to be turned off for around 20 minutes before restarting again. But, this shredder for the price does a great quick job of shredding even credit cards and disks.

Great microcut shredder. I like the large bin. It holds plenty and is very easy to empty neatly. It is built sturdy and has so far chewed up everything I have put through it.

This shredder doesn't mess around! It shreds without getting stuck! It even shreds staples! I can shred paper for long periods of time without any problems.