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I've had family who have them. If your specially using it for storing minatures, the above posters highlight important stuff

-climate control, just keeps stuff safer

-internal storage. i'll use this as a catch all. consider army cases with drop clothes over top of them. Home Depot sells cheap plastic covers for painting, they'd be perfect. goto ikea or walmart, get some cheap plastic easy to put up / down shelving. avoid clutter / just throwing stuff in

-ease of access. a family member had one at a 24 / 7 access with a key card. it was great. my roommate had one you could only access 9-5 and closed on holidays, that sucked. he was a gamer and kept some stuff there. his storage was cheap and safe, but near unaccessible if he forgot something on a weekend.

Semi off topic: I did briefly consider a storage myself for some of my warhammer stuff. I formerly lived with a fellow gamer which is both awesome and hindering at the same time. Its awesome because likely you'll always have a game, you are around someone who automatically gets what your into. Its hindering because likely it will fuel your gaming spending. I found I love warmachine / hordes, however it was just to easy to make and excuse to buy another army.

Upon getting married / combining households I realized I had way to much warhammer stuff. 40k (necrons, space marines, eldar, guard, chaos space marines, demons, orks) WFB (skaven, dwarves, elves, demons, chaos mortals, orcs), plus Warmachine / Hordes (cygnar, skorne, loads of random models).

One weekend when she was away I pulled out EVERY army in my living room. I realized the 40K armies were all over 4000 pts, each WFB army was over 3000. I had to sit and think if I needed it.. i realized i didn't. It sucked. HORRIBLY. I realized I had to shed weight.

So I sold lots of armies. I'm now down to
40k~ Orks / Gobos. SM Bikes. Chaos SM.
WFB~ Skaven. Dwarves. Demon being re-based. Trying to sell Elves.

Point is: think about what you actually use / need. I had multiple GT calibre armies, but spent have the time lending them out not using them. I sold some, 1 I gave away to the guy who just kept on borrowing it.