I actually like GregTech Item Pipes for early sorting into a network of either JABBA Barrels or Storage Drawers. There are pros and cons to each storage solution, but the good thing is that both are made only of wood, and both can be moved with a JABBA Dolly.
In order to get items into the GT Item Pipes, you will need to use a GT Conveyor as a pipe cover and hit it with a screwdriver to put it in "input" mode. You can install GT covers and/or plates to keep parallel legs of the Item Pipes from cross-connecting. The Conveyor can move up to 1 stack of items at a time, but it only tries to move items once every 20 seconds... so it is not "fast", but it gets the job done. Plus there are no pipe animations so it is lag-friendly on servers.
If this sounds expensive, it is. You will also need some zinc, but you should be able to find enough small ore to get you going. You can always use the Barrels or Drawers manually until you save up to automate them. Of course, by then you might be in the Electric Age and can get into EnderIO Conduits instead.