Best vinyl record storage 2025: Keep your record collection safe with our top picks

Vaultz Vinyl Led Zeppelin vinyl box
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Looking after my ever-growing vinyl collection is really important and I don't like the thought of leaving records on the floor - so choosing the best vinyl record storage is an essential way of keeping my records in tip-top condition. If you're a vinyl collector, I'm pretty sure you'll feel the same way.

So if you've been struggling to keep your records together and in some sort of order, now's the time to show your vinyl some respect, regardless of whether you’re playing supermarket-bought reissues or investing your hard-earned cash into an enviable collection of valuable records or deluxe box sets.

You can go to town on vinyl record storage, too, sitting records in crates and vintage-style carriers, or stacking them inside a record player console unit.

But if you want my top pick, myself and the Louder team agree that the Gorilla LP storage box is hard to beat. It's robust despite being lightweight and will keep up to 100 of your albums safe from coffee spills.

Fair warning though, once armed with a decent selection of vinyl storage you’ll undoubtably fall down the rabbit hole of the best ways to organise your vinyl record collection: Alphabetically? By genre? Year of release?Spine colour? I think we should leave that conversation for another time!

Best vinyl record storage: Product guide

FAQ

Best vinyl storage: Vinyl records stored in a wall shelving unit

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Collecting vinyl records is a right of passage for many music fans, and how you look after your wax has an impact on its future playability and, depending on if you’re interested in how to buy and sell valuable vinyl records, its future value too. Housing it in dedicated vinyl record storage helps protect it from damage and neglect.

Choose some of the more stylish vinyl storage options and they’ll also become a cool feature in your room, rather than just another few boxes.

Remember: for many of us there’s no beating the crackle of vinyl, but other people in your house may not give a damn how ‘warm’ it sounds and would rather you keep the sound of your records to yourself, thanks. In that case, take a look at our guide to the best headphones for music for listening on the down-low, and the best budget wireless headphones for pairing with a slick Bluetooth turntable.

How we choose the products for this guide

At Louder, we are music lovers and experts in our field, with many years of music listening and product testing between us. We live and breathe everything music related, and we draw on this knowledge and experience of using products when selecting the recommendations for our guides.

When choosing what we believe to be the best vinyl record storage available right now, we combine our hands-on experience, user reviews and testimonies and engage in discussions with our editorial colleagues to reach a consensus about the top products in any given category.

First and foremost, we are music fans, and we want others to find the right product for them. So we take into careful consideration everything from budget to feature set and ease of use to come up with a list of what we can safely say are the best vinyl record storage options.

Why you can trust us

Louder in numbers

⚡ Louder was established in 2017 and founded on long-running brands including Metal Hammer, Classic Rock and Prog (launched in 1986, 1998 and 2009 respectively)
⚡ Over 80,000 products reviewed on site, from music listening tech to albums and box sets
⚡ Our reviewers are all passionate music fans who draw on decades of testing experience

Louder’s reviewing team consists of music fans, musicians and professional product testers, who between them have accumulated decades of product reviewing experience, writing thousands of words on music listening gear across thousands of reviews on Louder. Our tests also inform our buyer's guide - just like this one.

As lifelong music fans, we're serious about the tech we listen to our favourite artists on. We want them to sound incredible, giving us all the detail those bands intended us to hear, and deliver the perfect balance of bass, mids and highs. We're looking for pure immersion in our chosen sounds, whether it's a classic '70s rock album, or a cutting-edge noise band.

We also want to keep our vinyl collections safe and sound and that's why we picked out what we consider to be the best storage solutions. After all, there's nothing worse than a pile of records that have been scattered all over the floor!

Meet the experts

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Claire Davies

During her tenure as a Total Guitar staffer and later as a freelance music journalist, Claire has attended her fair share of festivals and has camped out at most (there may have been the odd hotel stay). Claire was also the Outdoors Editor for Louder’s sister site T3, where she was in charge of hunting down the best tents for all camping scenarios.

Scott Munro
Scott Munro

Scott has spent 36 years in newspapers, magazines and online as an editor, production editor, sub-editor, designer, writer and reviewer. Scott maintains Louder’s buyer’s guides, writes about the best deals for music fans, keeps on top of the latest tech releases and reviews headphones, speakers, earplugs and more for Louder. Over the last 11 years, Scott has written more than 11,000 articles across Louder, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and Prog.

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Paul Dimery

Paul has spent the past nine years testing and writing about gadgets and technology for the likes of Louder, T3 and TechRadar. He might not have the wealth or the looks of Tony Stark, but when it comes to knowing about the latest cool kit, Paul would surely give Iron-Man a run for his money. As for his musical leanings, Paul likes everything from Weyes Blood to Nirvana. If it's got a good melody, he's on board with it.

Latest updates

Recent updates

22/07/25: The guide has been updated and includes two new products: Eknitey vinyl turntable stand and the Monkë storage unit. A new section on my you can trust the Louder team has been added, and there's also now a "meet our experts" section so you get to know the faces behind the creation on this guide.

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During her tenure as a Total Guitar staffer and later as a freelance music journalist, Claire has attended her fair share of festivals and has camped out at most (there may have been the odd hotel stay). Claire was also the Outdoors Editor for Louder’s sister site T3, where she was in charge of hunting down the best tents for all camping scenarios.

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