Should You Delete Your RAW Photos After Editing Them?

RAW Files from your DSLR or Mirrorless camera can take up a lot of space on your hard drive. So should you delete them once you've edited them or should you hang on to them to revisit in the future?

[seanpuello]

i guess ill hold my RAW photos up until a certain time after its delivered to the customer.

[AlexUtreras]

I always deleted the Raw after a while of delivering, basically when I needed more space, but I always had the occasional hidden folder with old raw and re-editing certain photos with today's knowledge (and what the software is improving as well ) It is incredible the new shine that one can bring out of old photos. But it's also true that you never have much time to go back, so what I'm doing lately, once I finish handing in a piece of work, I only keep the best best photos. If I gave 100, I'll keep about 20 to 30 per event, for posterity. But more than a matter of space (that when one starts to get fully into video, the raw space is minimal), it is a matter of time, that if I go back again, I won't start reviewing one by one. one from scratch.

[WeSelflessFew]

I agree, especially for printing purposes!!
I want to keep them, but I only have about 20 gigs of space right now until I order a high capacity SSD, so I'm left to delete them if I want to keep editing and practicing D:

[koz]

This is great! $149 is a great deal. Do you back up to more than one hard drive in case of failure?🤔

[Musalam]

mmm, , Should I delete my RAW file?
I'm kidding.
This video was very helpful, thank you.

[itsgreg]

I currently have them on a HDD but because of Lightroom using DNG files, I am debating whether to let the DNG files go since i have my Raws separate

[RahulKumar-nhwc]

So after editing RAW files can we export it in any other format other than JPEG?
or it's the only option