I’ve been thinking about doing this for a long time, but finally got fed-up enough with coffee taking up food space in the freezer. It’s a cute 1.8 cubic foot (probably about a quarter albatross for those using the metric system) little cooler-style fridge/freezer. Justified it further since if I ever needed to it has a 12v dc adapter for car use (doubt I ever will). It does feel pretty special for the coffee to have its own storage unit, and it makes finding frozen fruits and meat in the standard freezer easier to sift through. A couple of times I even threw stuff out of the freezer to make room for coffee, so I knew it was time to try this.
As long as it stored in an airtight container (I use glass jars with some clingwrap in-between to get a tighter seal), stored in a dark place, freshly bought beans will last me up to 4 months without much change to their taste when drinking.
(I usually use a smaller jar as well, so I’m not always opening a large jar, to only tip two brews worth into a hand grinder).