Whatever works is the right solution!

I have a 500GB hard drive and for a while I had that plugged into the USB port in my car. The delivery rate of that spinning drive was not fast enough though so I bought a 256gb thumb drive with fast data throughput. When I stopped to think about it and looked at it from a practicality perspective, I never had more than about 8000 songs and there was no need to have that 500GB drive in there. Even on the thumb drive I am barely using it. The hard drive, now connected to my computer, still has 400GB free as well. It has now become just a song storage drive. (The only thing about using it in the car is that it has to be formatted as FAT32. It won't work as NTFS. It took a lot of hair pulling to figure that one out.)

And the kicker is how seldom I listen to music in the car. When I do I "binge" listen, like I get in the mood for The Cure I'll put 80-100 of their songs on an 8GB thumb drive and listen to that until I want to change to TOP, or ELO, of EWF, or AWB, or any of those 3 letter bands. (There's a drinking game. How many band names can you think of that you can boil down to 3 characters. TRS, TBB, TFS, TFF...)

Sad to say, music just isn't my main interest anymore.