diogenese19348, I understand that you prefer the way you do things. That is fine. No one should even try to tell you how you should be organized.

For me, I keep my zip filed products on an external hard drive and I have only what I need to use in the next month installed other than the products from DAZ 3D.

I have several programs I use for my artwork; three modeling programs, one UV mapping program, four paint programs, one program I use for creating backgrounds, and of course DAZ Studio as my central application where I usually bring everything together. All together I think this takes up perhaps a little over three or four gigs of memory space on my internal hard drive.

Like you I invested in a 1 terabyte external, and I also have a 320 gig external. Along with the 500 gig internal, and that gives me plenty of memory to play with.

I do have my own organizing setup which normally works well for me but I can say without being ashamed that it could use a good bit of work. Finding the time to do that work is another thing entirely. For now, what I am doing is reorganizing a little at a time, as this is at best a tedious task that I can only work at for so long before I need to stop and find something else to do.