organization

I have a mess of digital media to sort out, photos and videos, and I want a robust system to move forward with. I've been doing some research and want to offer up what I've found so far for discussion. I think I like the three tier system but need a final shove to decide. To be clear the top...

I take a lot of photos as I was a pro photographer and loved iview media (now media pro by phase one) and recently bought photo mechanic (also have lightroom and photoshop for processing photos). I'm trying to organize all my photos as I don't want all my photos living on the cloud/iphone...