The thing you don't find out until month three is which latches survive a garage that gets below freezing. Plastic gets brittle in the cold, and I've had a clip snap off a toolbox in January just from being opened too fast with gloves on. Metal latches, even cheap stamped ones, tend to outlast the whole rest of the box.
Tool storage is not the place to chase looks, and I'll say plainly where it goes wrong: a soft sided bag with no rigid base will sag the moment you load it with anything heavier than a few screwdrivers, and a stackable plastic case with thin walls will crack at the corners if it ever gets dropped off a tailgate, which it will, eventually. If you're storing things that live outdoors or in a shed, skip anything with cardboard or fiberboard parts entirely, no matter how it's finished, because damp gets in through the seams and that's that. Where this kind of storage actually makes sense is anywhere tools get used and put away often rather than tools that sit for a season, so a mudroom, a garage, a shed, an apartment closet if you're the type who fixes your own shelves. Renters do well with a single sturdy toolbox they can carry between places rather than built in drawers they can't take with them. In an ordinary room, a tool box or case sits fine near a back door, under a bench, on a shelf in a hall closet, and it doesn't need to match anything, it just needs a flat, stable spot where it won't get kicked. Check the handle before you buy anything. Pick it up loaded, or ask to, and see if the handle flexes or if it feels like it's pulling straight out of the plastic. Run a finger along any seam where a lid meets a base, looseness there means dust and moisture get in over time. Metal boxes will show scratches and that's fine, they're supposed to, a scratched metal toolbox looks earned rather than tired. Plastic ones discolor in sunlight faster than you'd expect, so don't leave one by a window for years and be surprised when it's gone yellow. Wipe out dust and metal filings every few months, they work their way into every corner and they're genuinely abrasive against moving parts like drawer slides or folding trays. If a latch gets stiff, a drop of oil fixes it in seconds and saves you from forcing it until it snaps. Good tool storage doesn't ask for much, it just asks you to actually close the lid properly instead of letting it hang open on one clip, because that's the thing that eventually breaks.
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