GT5u storage organization tips?

I'm in a peaceful single-player game with IC2, GT5u, GemBlocksForGreg, and some utility mods (none of which add any worldgen or crafting recipes), and I've been thinking about relocating my stuff to under a large crop-farm I built, but that would also mean moving the chests I use for storage as well. I was wondering if anybody had tips to share that might help me organize my new storage better. If there are some non-obvious reasons for such a move being a bad idea, I'd like to know about those as well.

Sorry, your reply is a bit late (I've started new worlds with different mods a few times). In that world, the crop-farm is at -652,128,-647 while most of my chests were near 127, 65, 208. Thus it would take several hundred item pipes to move the items that way (riding a minecart in the overworld between the two places took 3 minutes 13 seconds, so I built some rails in the Nether, though I think there was a weird issue where at one end I usually couldn't board the Nether minecart unless I closed and relaunched Minecraft). Anyway, that's not really what I was asking about. I'm more interested in tips regarding how to arrange the chests, and how to decide which items should go in which chests. Such tips would help me even for newer worlds, at least until I'm able to build AE2 storage systems.

Sorry, it seems my meaning still isn't coming across. I'm not asking about automating the sorting or transfer of items. I'm talking about the conceptual organization of my items.

SpwnX, did you write your second post of this thread before reading my response? If you read my response first, I'm quite confused that you're continuing to talk about BC pipes, and frustrated that I'm still being misinterpreted.

Some problems with your suggestion of diamond pipes:
1. In the MultiMC instance I was describing in the OP, I didn't have BuildCraft. (I was trying to see if I could play GregTech without other major mods, which I think is technically possible but not all that attractive)
2. Without a system to help me decide what items to keep in which chests (or groups of chests), it's a bit impractical to set up diamond pipes.
3. In my current instance, I haven't found diamonds yet, and I plan to eventually build some AE2 storage, so I don't see a lot of value in setting up pipe-based item sorting.

Let me try rewording my question one more time: how should I group the chests I put my items in (before AE2 storage)? alphabetically? by category? (if so, what categories (and possibly subcategories) are good for GregTech items?) some other system?

Quote from SpwnX

Generally categories and dozens of chests with signs that tells you what are inside them.
Like "logs and planks", "ores" , "ingots", "crushed ores", "dusts", "tiny dusts/nuggets", "tools", "manufactured goods", "industrial goods" , "redstone things", "plants" and whatever more seem fit to deserve a chest on its own.

Thank you. My preliminary storage setup in my current instance is somewhat like that, but I wasn't sure whether I should maintain that style of organization once I put in the floor of my large house. I'm a bit curious why you suggest grouping by form (e.g. ingots vs. crushed ores) before/instead of by material, though.

Okay, that makes sense. I already have InvTweaks installed, though I haven't used NEI's highlight search mode much.

BTW, your comment about throwing crushed ores into the macerator again for dusts makes me wonder whether you're aware that it takes less time and total EU to use the forge hammer for that (10 ticks and 160 EU total vs. 400 ticks and 800 EU total, when both are at LV). I'm aware that once one has built the Universal Macerator, the potential for byproduct dust output probably outweighs the efficiency, but in lower tiers, the forge hammer seems to make more sense for converting crushed ores to dusts.

Actually, Jabba looks like a good mod for helping me store items I have large amounts of (e.g. mudstone/shale rubble), though one detail in the FTB wiki description of the mod seems a bit off: it says the barrels "can convert anything of the same Ore Dictionary entry to another." However, that doesn't seem to apply to cobblestone or rubble - limestone cobble can be macerated for calcite dust, and conglomerate rubble can be shoveled for a chance of copper nuggets, so I tried to convert other types of cobble/rubble to them, but it didn't work.

I was quoting the FTB wiki page for Jabba before (http://ftb.gamepedia.com/JABBA). On the mcf thread about it, it says "Barrels automatically convert ores/ingots/dusts from one mod into another." The changelog mentions removing "block" from the valid ore dictionary prefixes, so I think the FTB wiki page over-generalized. I might try later setting up barrels of wrought iron and annealed copper to see if those will accept regular iron and copper for conversion.

I'm aware that GT5u has quantum chests, but even if they don't consume power to store items (which is implied by the lack of voltage detail in their tooltips, but not explicitly stated on the wiki), the engraved crystal chips in the crafting recipe for the lowest-tier quantum chest can only be made in an HV-tier (or higher) precision laser engraver. I'm still pre-steam in my current instance, so it may take a few days before I'm ready to make those.