The Hisense HRM260N6TSE is a high-end 36-inch standard-depth French door refrigerator exclusively available at Lowe's. Its most prominent feature is a separate temperature-controlled pull-out drawer that you can configure as a soft freezer, deli drawer, or beverage chiller. The fridge features multiple split shelves, six door bins, and an ice and water dispenser located in the door. The freezer consists of two pull-out drawers. Other premium features include an inverter compressor and dual evaporators for cooling.
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Our Verdict
The Hisense HRM260N6TSE is a great choice for everyday use. It performs impressively well in keeping produce fresh and crisp for a week or more. The fridge and freezer are uniformly well-cooled for the most part, except for the warm middle and lower refrigerator door bins. The refrigerator's capacity is very good, with deep door bins and split shelves that can be repositioned to store tall items like narrow-neck bottles. Rather than a single-function deli drawer, there's a separate temperature-controlled pull-out drawer that adds capacity and flexibility. The simple two-drawer freezer has a good capacity, enough for bags of vegetables, pizza boxes, meal prep containers, or value-sized boxes of burgers, chicken, or fish.
Great produce preservation performance.
Excellent temperature uniformity between the fridge shelves.
Incredible temperature uniformity in the freezer.
Good freezer capacity overall.
Separate pull-out drawer adds capacity and can act as a soft freezer or a chiller.
Middle and lower door bins are a lot warmer than the fridge shelves.
The Hisense HRM260N6TSE offers great produce preservation performance. The dual evaporators keep humidity high in the fridge so that produce will stay fresh even outside the produce drawer. The seals on the crisper drawer retain humidity quite well inside the bin, resulting in impressive produce preservation. You'll be able to keep lettuce, celery, and carrots fresh and crisp for over a week.
Great produce preservation performance.
Dual evaporators keep fridge humidity high, preventing produce from drying out prematurely.
Produce bins seal well, retaining humidity and keeping produce crisp and fresh.
The Hisense HRM260N6TSE delivers very good capacity in the refrigerator. There are multiple split shelves and deep door bins that make good use of the space. The left door has a very large ice chute, which cuts into the fridge space, but there are shallow wrap-around door bins that provide some storage here. You'll easily be able to store tall items like fresh herbs in water in a variety of locations. There's also a separate pull-out drawer between the fridge and the freezer that adds capacity, and you can adjust it to act as a soft freezer for thawing meats or softening ice cream, a deli drawer for meats and cheeses, or a wine and beverage cooler.
Multiple split shelves in the refrigerator provide clearance for tall items.
Deep door bins have good capacity.
Separate pull-out drawer adds capacity and can act as a soft freezer or a chiller.
The Hisense HRM260N6TSE offers good capacity in the freezer. The freezer is simple, consisting of just two drawers with fixed dividers, but it's spacious enough for a family's needs. There's enough room in the top drawer for items like large bags of frozen peas or pizza boxes. The wide, deep, tall bottom drawer has lots of space for big family-sized boxes of preprepared dinner entrées.
Good freezer capacity overall.
Deep, wide, tall freezer bottom drawer provides a lot of space for large items.
The Hisense HRM260N6TSE exhibits excellent temperature uniformity overall. Temperatures are very even between fridge shelves, so you don't need to be concerned about where you place temperature-sensitive items like milk. The freezer shows outstanding temperature uniformity, and you can rest assured that items will freeze quickly, remain perfectly frozen, and won't grow frost or suffer from freezer burn wherever you place them in the freezer. Unfortunately, the middle and lower refrigerator door bins are a lot warmer than the fridge shelves, so you should only use these as chillers for shelf-stable beverages or condiments.
Excellent temperature uniformity between the fridge shelves.
Incredible temperature uniformity in the freezer.
Middle and lower door bins are a lot warmer than the fridge shelves.
The Hisense HRM260N6TSE delivers mediocre ice-making performance. The ice maker's production rate is inadequate for a small family or even a couple. The ice tray has an unremarkable capacity when full; it's barely enough for a small family dinner, so you'll have to buy bags of ice for parties or backyard barbecues.
Low ice production rate.
Low ice tray capacity.
Performance Usages
Changelog
- Updated Feb 26, 2026: Version 1.1 of our refrigerator test bench provides new information regarding authorized service provider coverage for different manufacturers, the availability of replacement parts, and operating noise. For a more detailed breakdown of the changes made, see our full changelog.
- Updated Nov 03, 2025: Review published.
- Updated Oct 29, 2025: Early access published.
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Differences Between Sizes And Variants
There's only one version of the Hisense HRM260N6TSE, and it's available in stainless steel. Here's our unit's label.
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Popular Refrigerator Comparisons
The Lowe's exclusive Hisense HRM260N6TSE has plenty of features and competes well with similarly configured high-end fridges costing much more. Its closest comparable alternative is the GE Profile PVD28BYNFS, which also has an in-door water dispenser, dual evaporators, and a separate temperature-controlled drawer. The Hisense offers better produce preservation since the humidity in the fridge compartment rises quickly and doesn't vary as much. The GE Profile has much worse temperature uniformity in the fridge and a little worse in the freezer. These two fridges have nearly identical capacities. The GE Profile's shortfalls are rectified in the much more expensive Café CGE29DP2TS1, which is a better fridge overall than the Hisense, but not by much. The Hisense also can't quite match the performance of the class-leading Bosch 500 Series B36FD52SNS despite the advantage of dual evaporators; it doesn't exceed the produce preservation performance due to the superlative produce bin seals in the Bosch, and it falls just a bit short on refrigerator capacity as well.
Note that there are multiple Reddit comments that are skeptical of Hisense's quality, warranty, and service network. While you'll find negative comments about any refrigerator manufacturer, it's still important to draw attention to these issues since this fridge performed so well in our tests.
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The Hisense HRM260N6TSE is a somewhat better fridge than the similarly priced LG LRFLC2706S. The dual evaporator Hisense handily beats the single evaporator LG in produce preservation performance, as well as refrigerator capacity, since the Hisense is standard depth while the LG is counter depth. However, the LG matches the Hisense in freezer capacity, which is notable for a counter-depth freezer. The LG also offers better refrigerator temperature uniformity since it doesn't suffer from the Hisense's warm door bins, and it can make and store much more ice than the Hisense can.
The Bosch 500 Series B36FD52SNS is a better fridge than the Hisense HRM260N6TSE. Despite the Hisense's dual evaporators versus the Bosch's single evaporator, the Bosch still offers better produce preservation performance than the Hisense due to its excellent produce bin seal. The Bosch also has a higher capacity in the fridge, but the same capacity in the freezer. Additionally, the Bosch produces and stores more ice than the Hisense. However, the Hisense does have better temperature uniformity in the fridge than the Bosch, despite its warm door bins.
The Hisense HRM260N6TSE is a better fridge than the similar GE Profile PGE29BYTFS. The Hisense's produce preservation is notably better, even though both fridges have dual evaporators and decent produce drawer seals. The Hisense also has a larger freezer since there's no ice tray taking up space there. The Hisense's separate temperature-controlled drawer is more fully featured than the GE's corresponding drawer because you can configure the Hisense's drawer as a soft freezer. However, the GE produces and stores far more ice than the Hisense, and its refrigerator door bins are better cooled. As well, the GE uses a compact water dispenser pitcher inside the fridge instead of a bulky ice and water dispenser in the door, so it has more fridge capacity.
The Hisense HRM260N6TSE is a better fridge than the nearly identical GE Profile PVD28BYNFS. The Hisense has better produce preservation than the GE, and the Hisense's separate temperature-controlled drawer is more capable than the GE's because you can configure it as a mild freezer. The Hisense also has better temperature uniformity in the fridge and freezer. All other aspects of these two fridges are just about identical, though the GE's ice maker has a faster production rate, and its ice tray has a higher capacity.
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