Managing Megabytes of digital photos

One of the challenges of working in digital is managing the veritable explosion of files that will start to populate your hand disk. There are two aspects to this; file size and file quantity. With more than 100 Gigabytes of scanned files accumulated over the past few years I am more than familiar with the former problem. I havean articleon-line which describes my technique for handling the issue.
Shooting in digital though creates a new problem‚ managing the hundreds of files that even a brief shoot can generate. I used to be a photojournalist and would think nothing of shooting a dozen or more 36 exp rolls a day on assignment. These days, doing landscape, nature and wildlife work I don't shoot quite that much, but some good days can see between 5 and 10 rolls.
With film, these are placed in sleeves (I don't mount them as slides but treat them as negatives in strips) and then stored in binders. Storing 30 rolls from a week-long shoot doesn't take all that much space. Only the frames...