Mac OS X Best Location to Archive Disabled Font Groups Stored on Drive?

Question

I am currently building a Mac OS X system and am now installing 3rd party applications. I've installed the CS6 Master Collection and other applications, but wanted to know what would be the most logical place to store various groups of fonts from 3rd parties? I have perhaps 7,000 fonts from various publishers.
I've read this dated Adobe guide (it refers to OS Classic):
http://www.adobe.com/africa/type/topics/FontsonMacOSX.pdf
I've also read several other guides online.
I am looking for the best location to store folders full of fonts from various publishers. Most of the fonts are not going to be in use, but I want to store them in one central place.
Adding too many fonts in the default font folders will slow down the system after a certain point; however, does this only apply to enabled fonts?
If I were to install a folder of 1,000 fonts inside the hard drive's main font folder (HD/Library/Fonts) using Font Book, but disable the entire collection will that still slow down the system just because they are in the main fonts folder?
I am wanting to only enable individual fonts as they are needed from a vendor's collection as needed for individual projects.
Or perhaps a better location would be HD/Fonts
I've also thought of installing them in a special folder inside my user's folder as my Mac only has one account such as this:
~/Documents/Fonts/Publisher1
~/Documents/Fonts/Publisher2
~/Documents/Fonts/Publisher3
~/Documents/Fonts/Publisher4

Answer 1

A user burned DVD+R DL version of any version of Mac OS X is asking for trouble without a backup. Technical reasons alone can cause problems. Apple uses commercial grade optical discs when selling optical discs to the general public. These are hard to come by, and have properties consumer grade discs don't have, such as DVD+R DL discs that are able to be read on original Apple DVD-R only drives. Secondly when you make a copy, it rarely if ever is as good as the original because optical drives face the same type of sector errors that hard drives do. Third, if the drive you say is broken is the one that originally made the copy, likely it was already getting broke at the time the copy was made, meaning the copy you made was already subject to impurities of being on a broken or dirty drive. You should have tested the copy on a backed up system regardless, before trusting it to your system after the drive was definitively broke. Now for target disc mode installs, you have other variables you should be aware of:
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