I like the chest freezers myself. Bought mine for $40 from my neighbors when they moved out. I' m not sure how many cubic feet it is but it' s roughly 6 feet wide and about 2.5 feet deep. My refrigerator in the house is a side by side so when it gets low I restock it from the chest freezer. I take empty milk jugs, rinse them out and fill them with water and put them in the chest freezer to keep it full when it' s not full of meat. I' ve heard that a full freezer takes less power than an empty one. Not sure if it' s true but that' s how I do it.